GRG's William Lagesson Suspension
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The AHL is just a bullshit goon league at this point. If this is a 3 game ban and that moron on the Wolf Pack got 4 for an assault on a goalie that should've seen him hauled out of the arena by the Rochester PD what would it take to get a 5+ game ban: pulling out a switchblade and stabbing a guy?
I can't think of a time where an AHL ref was suspended for inaction or not paying attention to what is happening on the ice. The Milwaukee Admirals started playing in the AHL in 2001.How 'bout 10 games each for Lagesson & the referee?
Last night, the fans started chanting at the ref(s) after 6 minutes of playing time. Ozzy Weisblatt (5'10" and 185) had his legs taken out by Brandon Baddock (6'3" and 223) in the Neutral Zone and no penalty was called. Kyle Marino (6'2" and 218) immediately went after Baddock and received 17 minutes in penalties. Baddock got 5 for Fighting. After Baddock returned to the ice, he immediately checked Jeremy Hanzel (6'1" and 200) from BEHIND and LATE. No call for that either. It showed that Baddock had learned nothing from his previous misdeed, even after being socked in the mouth 7 times by Marino.
The lesson is that when you don't punish a bully and predator, you get more bullying and unprovoked attacks on the ice. Baddock was eventually called for 3 penalties for a total of 9 minutes. It should have been double that amount and time.
You can thank refs Bobby Jo Love (#51) and Alex Lepkowski (#44) for not doing their jobs properly in period one, which caused problems the entire game. They should be suspended for a game. After the crowd reaction in period one, they did improve in periods 2 and 3. (They could not get much worse than their performance in period one.)
Bobby Jo Love is not loved in Milwaukee. Lepkowski can still be saved.
You have to wonder how much non-hockey activity happens in other cities that the rest of the AHL does not know about?
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JMCx4
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You'd have to be paying very close attention (which you apparently do) to be aware of an on-ice official's suspension, spotting absences among the assignments. Organized hockey - and other sports - seem to be very secretive when it comes to personnel issues involving game officials. Probably a contract restriction, but it might also be a tradition of protecting the authority and aura of infallibility carried by referees & linespersons. I imagine the disciplinary practices (or non-practices) are even more frustrating for the players & coaches than they are for us fans.
Karl Taylor, the Admirals HC, has yelled at the refs more this season than the five previous seasons combined. I think that he is fed up with seeing refs greatly favoring the road teams. It seems to happen with the Illinois teams when 1 or both refs are from Illinois.
One of those refs has not worked any games that I have been at this season. I have been at 5 of the 6 home games played so far. Maybe the AHL is afraid of a fan riot?
It happened here in 1990 in the IHL days. The coach was ejected by ref Derek Martin early in period 2 after the second 5-on-3 was called. The fans threw about 500 sodas, beers and boxes of popcorn onto the ice. The game had to be suspended for 45 minutes to clean the ice. Martin never worked another game in Milwaukee.
The local newspaper ran a two column story with two photos rather than the usual tiny filler story for a Admirals game. I sent a copy to the league commissioner so he could see an unbiased account of what happened to provoke such a fan reaction.
I believe that we are headed for another fan riot this season or next, if the refs don't straighten out and call the game in a reasonably fair manor. The fan tolerance here has been diminished in the last two seasons.
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