Post-Game Talk: Game #72 -MOD 275- Game decided on questionable penalty to B's - Toronto 4 BRUINS 2 F

[Hali33]

I was as well until I realized I had to go to work to pay my bills

I can do both! I'll just be a treat to work with today.

 

[caz16]

I just finished watching the game, and I feel genuinly dissapointed and demoralized..
I cant believe this type of reffing is allowed at the NHL level, and that the reffs never need to answer for anything they do.
While I was watching I was constantly thinking that the game felt rigged, the reffing felt so extremely biased and when I come on here I see that almost everyone seems to think the same way.
Its interesting, because I dont usually feel this way, I know calls most of the times evens out.
But if there ever were a game this season that the leafs and the leauge would want to rigg, its this one, and when the reffing is so extremely biased and unfair...You cant help but wonder.
Just sad now. Time to get started on what im sure will become a long day of moping around...

There is so much money to be made if the Leafs make the playoffs...every bandwagon fan around Toronto will be buying jerseys, etc. Huge profits to the NHL and every licensed product. You can bet this was rigged...these weren't refs with little experience. The timing gives it away - a powerplay to the #1 PP in the league - huge 2 points, no silly 1 point would be enough. All corporate greed is what it boils down to.

 

[TP]

Last night was demoralizing. I went to bed sick. ****ign refs.


I am going to the game tonight, but I am already preparing myself for more disappointment.

 

[Hali33]

Rask was great last night, I'd give him Ottawa tonight.

 

[caz16]

Rask was great last night, I'd give him Ottawa tonight.

Agreed - he was excellent and the way he stormed off the ice, he will be very motivated.

 

[Mount Kramer Cameras]

It's the next morning and I'm still ***** off with the officiating last night.

Can someone explain to me why Acciari was even recalled, let alone inserted into the line-up? Just an awful, awful, hockey player. He hits people, that's all he can do at the NHL level. The sooner No-goal Acciari is back riding the buses in Providence, the better.

Expect absolutely zero offense from the 4th line with Nash and Acciari manning the wings of that line.

It'd be acceptable if he was big + tough. But there was a point last night where Matt Martin condescendingly patted him on the head in a scrum and Acciari just meekly accepted it. If he's only there for the physicality then that's not good enough.

 

[BruinLVGA]

Normally, I am not in the habit of ranting about the refereeing. But this was just so blatant, it's impossible to ignore. First Toronto goal, it should have been a Bruins PP, not a 4vs4. Second Toronto goal, I guarantee you that if the roles were reversed, they wouldn't have called that penalty at that stage of the game. Especially knowing how they did not call a ton of interference from Toronto before.

Last but not least, someone should have turned Soshnikov into ground round for what he did.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

I can do both! I'll just be a treat to work with today.

 

[Ryan77]

Normally, I am not in the habit of ranting about the refereeing. But this was just so blatant, it's impossible to ignore. First Toronto goal, it should have been a Bruins PP, not a 4vs4. Second Toronto goal, I guarantee you that if the roles were reversed, they wouldn't have called that penalty at that stage of the game. Especially knowing how they did not call a ton of interference from Toronto before.

Last but not least, someone should have turned Soshnikov into ground round for what he did.

How can you fight him?? You'll get an instigator. That's what the NHL is let some nobody run a
Star and get away with it because if you retaliate we would end up short handed.

 

[LouJersey]

Last night was demoralizing. I went to bed sick. ****ign refs.


I am going to the game tonight, but I am already preparing myself for more disappointment.

Right next to you on the ledge. Not sure if it's because all my sports teams choke or not but if they lose tonight I'm expecting another collapse. I have four of HF's finest on text though that will talk me through.

Last nights game gave me 2011 playoffs caliber TMJ and stress headaches.

 

[BsEuphoria]

Rask was great last night, I'd give him Ottawa tonight.

Rask made some of the better saves of the year last night and just wasn't rewarded like he should've been.

 

[tremha]

Rask played well for sure.

Anyone surprised / disappointed that K Miller didn't pound shoshkinov when he boarded Bergeron?

 

[BsEuphoria]

Last night was demoralizing. I went to bed sick. ****ign refs.


I am going to the game tonight, but I am already preparing myself for more disappointment.

I actually really thought they were going to win that game going in last night. I had them marked for a loss tonight just because I knew it would be a huge battle last night.

I'm on the ledge with you, hopefully then bring us back from it tonight

 

[tremha]

ps. it was a penalty on moore. he cleared space doing it and if they could have got a pass to him he would have been all alone.

 

[tremha]

Normally, I am not in the habit of ranting about the refereeing. But this was just so blatant, it's impossible to ignore. First Toronto goal, it should have been a Bruins PP, not a 4vs4. Second Toronto goal, I guarantee you that if the roles were reversed, they wouldn't have called that penalty at that stage of the game. Especially knowing how they did not call a ton of interference from Toronto before.

Last but not least, someone should have turned Soshnikov into ground round for what he did.

agreee - Shoshnikov should have either got 5 for boarding or 2 + 2 to go with the 2 for Bergeron.

 

[Blowfish]

Rigged.

Yup. Leaf games are rigged. Brutal.

 

[Fenway]

I started a new med yesterday that made me tired in around 5 PM yesterday so I took a nap and just woke up now. I just looked at the NHL replay and feel sick. In the NHL I grew up with the refs put away their whistles at the end of a close match - but not last night.

The NHL wants Toronto in the playoffs for TV reasons.

 

[Blowfish]

It's the next morning and I'm still ***** off with the officiating last night.

Can someone explain to me why Acciari was even recalled, let alone inserted into the line-up? Just an awful, awful, hockey player. He hits people, that's all he can do at the NHL level. The sooner No-goal Acciari is back riding the buses in Providence, the better.

Expect absolutely zero offense from the 4th line with Nash and Acciari manning the wings of that line.

I actually liked what I saw from Ace. Sorry diageee.

 

[GoBs]

Surprising that an experienced ref in a tie game with a crucial 2 points on the line hands a PP to one team or anther after letting they boys play. Thank the hockey gods the D1 colleges are starting their tourney you don't see that crap.

 

[EverettMike]

ps. it was a penalty on moore. he cleared space doing it and if they could have got a pass to him he would have been all alone.

Haha.

Needed that today. Thank you.

 

[Pia8988]

I'm almost more upset at the Chara matching then the Moore on. Martin instigated it and Toronto got a 4th line scrub to trade off for Chara.

 

[EverettMike]

Nothing was/is rigged. It's just gross incompetence.

Even in Montreal, it's just bad refs falling prey to the arena and the crowd.

Don't assign malice where stupidity is responsible.

 

[Pia8988]

Nothing was/is rigged. It's just gross incompetence.

Even in Montreal, it's just bad refs falling prey to the arena and the crowd.

Don't assign malice where stupidity is responsible.

Especially in a world where having a beer with a blogger is worse than being terrible at your job.

Referring the the Peele suspension, I think 2 years ago?

 

[Fenway]

Bruins lose on late power-play goal; Bruce Cassidy says penalty call was ‘egregious’

Tyler Bozak scored the deciding goal in the Maple Leafs’ 4-2 win on Monday on the power play with 1:57 remaining in regulation.

That the Bruins were down a man on Bozak’s goal was not something that Bruce Cassidy could tolerate.

“I thought it was an egregious call, to be perfectly honest with you,†the Bruins coach said of Dominic Moore’s offensive-zone interference infraction. “That’s a guy driving the net. Their guy’s there. It happens probably 100 times during the course of the game. But we’ve got to get the job done on the penalty kill.â€

The play in question took place with the game tied, 1-1. The Bruins were less than three minutes away from recording at least 1 point. Moore charged to the net and got tangled up with Nikita Soshnikov. It was enough contact for Moore to make a two-minute visit to the penalty box.

Moore only served 57 seconds of the penalty. After Tuukka Rask turned back a close-range Bozak shot, Brandon Carlo almost sent the puck out of the zone. But Nikita Zaitsev held the line and reset the attack.

Bozak, the high shooter in Toronto’s man-up formation, slipped coverage when James van Riemsdyk received the puck from Zaitsev at the right circle. Before the penalty killers could slide over, Bozak reeled in van Riemsdyk’s cross-ice dish and snapped a speeding puck past Rask (25 saves).

 

[fin8]

Rigged? Cmon man. I thought it was a bad call too. That doesn't mean the NHL is rigged. If some of you people think it's rigged, then don't watch the NHL. Ridiculous assumption.