NHL: Fake Rules

[jgatie]

Yes, its a conspiracy led by Bettman, the guy who does nothing unless the BOG approves it. I guess the NHL would rather have small market teams like Ottawa, Nashville and Edmonton over much larger TV revenue generating and fan bases like Boston, San Jose and Chicago.

Just wondering what happened in Calgary, I guess the evil Bettman forgot about them.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the NHL gets paid no matter what the ratings are, and those "small market teams" are much more lucrative to the NHL than the US market. Not saying the NHL contract with Rogers is what is driving the lousy reffing calls, but to say the influence of the Canadian teams is less than the US teams because of market size is just false. 7 Canadian teams generate $325,000,000 per year (at today's exchange) from Rogers, the teams in the US generate $200,000,000 from NBC.

 

[HockeyMomx2]

The refs have been **** no doubt, but the Bruins should be furious at Ovechkin for boarding Carlo. And you know whats even better? No response from the Bruins, crickets...

It wasn't boarding, it was a hook, or as Ovi played it, oops, incidental contact, my bad, thanks for not calling that. Plenty mad about it.

 

[Braunbaer]

It wasn't boarding, it was a hook, or as Ovi played it, oops, incidental contact, my bad, thanks for not calling that. Plenty mad about it.

Thing is: What would it matter now if it had been called?

 

[Hali33]

Sens have to have one of the smallest followings in Canada.

Most people only care if they are the only option to watch in the post season.

If the league really wanted to have their influence, a Bruins/Habs second round after the Julien firing would be a better story.

There are incompetent refs in this league and we know who they are. There's no conspiracy about what happened that game.

 

[HockeyMomx2]

Thing is: What would it matter now if it had been called?

It would at least cut the tin foil hats ability to scream "fixed" if the "superstars" where held to the same playing standard as the rest of the league. It gets tiresome watching these refs give them more and more reason to believe they are in fact correct.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

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Serious question: remember that game where there was a penalty call (a BAD one) against a Bruins opponent reversed after being whistled down after the crowd got upset... Does anyone note that having that happen in any other game this season?

 

[Colt.45Orr]

The NHL product sucks; you can't cheer now because something might have happened 1:45 earlier.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

The NHL product sucks; you can't cheer now because something might have happened 1:45 earlier.

Just said the same in the GDT.

I find myself no longer enjoying watching these games.

It... sucks.

 

[Colt.45Orr]

Just said the same in the GDT.

I find myself no longer enjoying watching these games.

It... sucks.

Multi billion dollar company and they are too ****ing stupid to see how harmful all these offside challenges are to their overall product.
Unbelievable.

 

[Hali33]

The NHL product sucks; you can't cheer now because something might have happened 1:45 earlier.

Was just saying that. Pretty ****ing sad.

 

[KrejciMVP]

No different than the corrupt NBA.

 

[Braunbaer]

The NHL product sucks; you can't cheer now because something might have happened 1:45 earlier.

What I wonder about that rule is ...

Let's imagine the Bruins enter the zone and one of the Bruins' players gets injured on a dirty play which also results in a delayed penalty.
Bruins score so the penalty never gets called. Goal gets taken back because of the offside.

What's with the penalty then? I assume it never gets called, because the foul "never happened". Would the league be able to punish players for cheap shots in those cases?

 

[Colt.45Orr]

--STONE throws a punch to Bergeron's head in O.T. after getting fouled---doesn't get a penalty (to even it up).

--NASH threw a punch in O.T. after getting fouled --Ottawa gets a powerplay.





The NHL can't seriously think that I'll pay for their product or merchandise anymore, can they? I'm not "out" was a fan but I'm moving closer and closer to the line.

Apathy is step 1, NHL.

 

[s3antana5757]

What I wonder about that rule is ...

Let's imagine the Bruins enter the zone and one of the Bruins' players gets injured on a dirty play which also results in a delayed penalty.
Bruins score so the penalty never gets called. Goal gets taken back because of the offside.

What's with the penalty then? I assume it never gets called, because the foul "never happened". Would the league be able to punish players for cheap shots in those cases?

The penalty still is enforced. This came up in a game a couple years ago on a breakaway by either Marchand or Pasta. He was hooked and scored, play got called back for off-side, penalty stood and they scored on the PP.

 

[patty59]

What I wonder about that rule is ...

Let's imagine the Bruins enter the zone and one of the Bruins' players gets injured on a dirty play which also results in a delayed penalty.
Bruins score so the penalty never gets called. Goal gets taken back because of the offside.

What's with the penalty then? I assume it never gets called, because the foul "never happened". Would the league be able to punish players for cheap shots in those cases?

Still a penalty

 

[BruinsBtn]

NHL rulebook:

(i) In a rebound situation, or where a goalkeeper and offensive player(s) are simultaneously attempting to play a loose puck, whether inside or outside the crease, incidental contact with the goalkeeper will be permitted, and any goal that is scored as a result thereof will be allowed.

Clear as day that it’s a goal.

 

[KrejciMVP]

The league and the refs have really disgraced themselves this series.

 

[Ten Thousand Hours]

No different than the corrupt NBA.

Neither is fixed. The NHL is just more incompetent.

 

[Salem13]

I found myself praying we did NOT score in the first OT.

First time we got the puck in the attacking zone and I thought Marchand was offside bringing it in.

He delayed and swung the puck back over the line.


All I could do was pray that Ottawa cleared the zone.

 

[jgatie]

Neither is fixed. The NHL is just more incompetent.

Ahh, I'm pretty sure the NBA had a ref convicted of corruption in an actual court of law. Not to mention a lot of evidence that they heavily favor teams with big names, not to mention 7 game series.

 

[since76]

Where we can write to NHL to tell them what we think ?
Link ?
May be if everyone send them 100 messages...
Atleast we should stop to buy anything with a nhl tag...and tell them

 

[the negotiator]

So it's come to this

I expect that the referrIng is probably going to be incompetent.....a sad but true reality

BUT

When four calls go against the same team ( kneeing, goalie interference, covering the puck and roughing ) ...the last three in OT then the word biased has to be used

And even worse.....it continues a trend that we have seen through-out the series

Refs propping up teams doesn't begin to approach this level of carp we have experienced

 

[JOKER 192]

Neither is fixed. The NHL is just more incompetent.

Oh, I beg to differ. Bettman installed the system in the NBA when he was there and brought it to the NHL now that he's here. The bigger markets , the teams that make the most $$$, that sell the most merchandise, that draw the biggest TV contracts get all the calls . The rant the Grizzlies coach went on after his team was so blantly jobbed earlier this week is very real. The NBA has stuck with the system even long after Bettman has left because $$$ changes everything.

 

[JCRO]

NHL rulebook:

(i) In a rebound situation, or where a goalkeeper and offensive player(s) are simultaneously attempting to play a loose puck, whether inside or outside the crease, incidental contact with the goalkeeper will be permitted, and any goal that is scored as a result thereof will be allowed.

Clear as day that it’s a goal.

That was the NHLs chance to redeem themselves for the **** show they put Boston through in the game 3 OT. And they still blew it.

 

[missingchicklet]

NHL rulebook:

(i) In a rebound situation, or where a goalkeeper and offensive player(s) are simultaneously attempting to play a loose puck, whether inside or outside the crease, incidental contact with the goalkeeper will be permitted, and any goal that is scored as a result thereof will be allowed.

Clear as day that it’s a goal.

And that is the most maddening thing to me. It can be argued about any actual contact made to begin with. Watching from multiple angles, Kuraly makes very minimal if any contact. He lifts his skates and leaps at just the right moment. But let's say decent contact was made, it was still clearly incidental and in an attempt to make a play. It also did not have any bearing whatsoever on the goalie not stopping the goal.

Then take into account the actions of the refs on the goal. They did nothing to show that it should be interference and no goal. That is until they huddled and called it a no goal.

Then throw in the fact the refs and the League BOTH looked at it on replay, in which the replay angles clearly showed that according to the rules that it was a good goal. Then furthermore throw in the fact the refs and the league knew the Bs had already been screwed by poor calls earlier in the series.

And they STILL botched the call in the favor of the Sens. I am not sure how that can even happen in the playoffs with the benefit of replay unless something is amiss. Isn't it curious how games in which Tim Peel and Chris Lee are involved frequently end up a gong show that screws the Bs? How can one team get the bad end of the whistle every game out of 5 games, and to add insult to injury get screwed on replay by both the refs and the league when they do not even follow their own written rules? The whole thing is a circus being run by clowns.