GDT: Qf Finland - USA 17:35 CET 02-22-06

[Marshall]

The next US player who passes on a two-on-one should be benched. Take the freaking shot, jackpipe.

 

[Herby]

I want to kick something!

How about Derian Hatcher, Keith Tkachuk or Mathieu Schneider.

What a disgraceful performance by these three veteran players.

 

[In the Doghouse]

And the ref garbage starts again. Please, STOP!!!

The finnish TV-commentary Antero Mertaranta is probably the biggest homer of them all and like he says himself, he has "Magic glasses" on when he's commentating. I think that is one explanation why there is so much bickering about the refereeing.

 

[Jussi]

The US PK is killin em.

You can't stop us from scoring on the PP.

 

[jepjepjoo]

that was some coast to coast

 

[Steve L*]

That was a DiPietro OG.

 

[Matti_A]

What-A-Sequence!

 

[ColoradoHockeyFan]

The next US player who passes on a two-on-one should be benched. Take the freaking shot, jackpipe.

No kidding.

And what a wild sequence of back-and-forth 2-on-1's that was! The US would take it, down by two goals. But they've got to bury the puck!

 

[JanJ]

everyone does that man... has NOTHING to do with being finnish.

Comment was made towards finns, and fact is that finns say "we". That might be the case in other countries as well, and I bet you got my point. So it has a LOT to do in being finnish.

Peltonen scores, but ref still sucks. Win or lose, it does not change it. But as requested, I'll try not to comment so much about ref anymore.

Go Finns.

 

[StickShift]

Uh, can someone tell me what exactly happened to Salo?

 

[Bloggins]

The finnish TV-commentary Antero Mertaranta is probably the biggest homer of them all and like he says himself, he has "Magic glasses" on when he's commentating. I think that is one explanation why there is so much bickering about the refereeing.

Honestly, I think the worst thing you can have is a ref from your own country. They always seem to over-compensate to prove they're not biased.

 

[acr*]

Bad period. We started off fine, but our idiot senior citizens gave Finland the game late this period with all those dumb defensive plays and penalties.

 

[Joe MacMillan]

weeeeew

 

[MeN_Ace2]

...any more complaints about Peltonen making the team?

 

[Kostik]

I'm 99% certain that Devorski is the same ref who called the Czech - Canada game. In that game, he called a hooking penalty on Blake even though it was Blake's stick that was being held by a Czech player. In this game, He does the same thing to Tkachuk.

In the Canada - Czech game, Devorski called penalty after penalty on Canada cause they were leading. Yeah, I'm sure it's him alright.

BS detected - you can't be serious

 

[BMOK33]

Bad penalties, bad scoring, bad goaltending and bad defense for the US today....unfortunately all 4 went bad in the most important ghame

 

[donniedarko]

hopefully in four years we have a younger team with Kessel, Johnson, and some of the players from this team, but man, do we ever suck right now.

 

[btn]

Peltonen scores, but ref still sucks. Win or lose, it does not change it. But as requested, I'll try not to comment so much about ref anymore.

I guess getting two 5 on 3's in one period will do that

The US took plenty of silly penalties in the 2nd.

 

[Vagrant]

You can't stop us from scoring on the PP.

Not with three players, no.

 

[FinnswissX]

Honestly, I think the worst thing you can have is a ref from your own country. They always seem to over-compensate to prove they're not biased.

Is that true, is the ref really from USA? I don't understand that, I always thought they don't take refs of a country which is playing, especially not in knock-out games like a quarterfinal of the Olympic games.

 

[SopelFan*]

Salo update?

 

[Steve L*]

Honestly, I think the worst thing you can have is a ref from your own country. They always seem to over-compensate to prove they're not biased.

Someone should have told the yank official that in the last olympic womens final.

 

[GKJ]

Bad penalties, bad scoring, bad goaltending and bad defense for the US today....unfortunately all 4 went bad in the most important ghame

Just this game?

 

[Pwnasaurus]

How much time left?

 

[RangerBoy]

Salo update?

Nothing