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Post-Game Talk: NYR @ WSH Game I: An Implosion Of Modest Proportions

SA16 said:
The officiating is part of the game and should be able to be fairly criticized as well as any other part of it. They missed/blew some calls. It happens. It happened to hurt us tonight. Long run it should even out and happen the same to everyone. Saying that it didn't hurt us tonight though is just neglecting an important fact of the game. Obviously we needed to score more goals and convert on powerplays but all of those things were important in the game. Not just one or the other.
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I thought refs usually call less penalties in the playoffs and let the teams decide the games. I feel like I saw calls we never see during the regular season.
 
SA16 said:
The officiating is part of the game and should be able to be fairly criticized as well as any other part of it. They missed/blew some calls. It happens. It happened to hurt us tonight. Long run it should even out and happen the same to everyone. Saying that it didn't hurt us tonight though is just neglecting an important fact of the game. Obviously we needed to score more goals and convert on powerplays but all of those things were important in the game. Not just one or the other.
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I am not saying it didn't hurt us. What I'm saying is that a good team goes out and works against that.

IMO losers whine about the Refs.
 
Stepan: "I don't know how many (penalties) we took tonight. Do you know?" (from off camera: "five") Stepan laughs. "That's way too many."
 
I'm still confident they can win this series. I mean no one was exactly expecting the Rangers in 4 right?
 
Something else.

The Caps out-Rangered the Rangers. 25 blocked shots to our 15. They blocked so many shots in the early part of the game that the Rangers tried to be too fine on the puck and ended up missing the net.
 
You'd think they'd have developed some sort of sensor in the puck by now. They have camera's in the back of the net, seems more efficient to put some sort of sensor on the red line and another in the puck that triggers the red light once it crosses the red line.
 
BBKers said:
Some points

Moores "goal " seemed inconclusive but almost certainly in. cannot go againdt the rules - no goal. Thought Moore played well
Ashams penalty was a total hose job. Huge miss by the refs. Asham played well in limited time too.
Nash did not look worthy of the huge bounty we gave up. Perimeter shots yes.
Callahan, Zuccarello and McD did not look that great either
I actually thought Richards looked OK. Along with Girardi and Stralman too
Hank cannot let in a goal like this. Although Snowblind is ranting way out of control with total dellusions and iffy personal issues - he is right about the fact that the 3rd goal is totally inexcusable in a game like this.
Tortorella is the best PP coach in the league. Doubtlessly. And an offensive mastermind when down by a goal or two. The tactics he employs in these 2 fields where he has excelled for years would marvel Merlin into submission and surrender. He is such a great coach
Kreider had an allright game for being Kreider this year. That being said, he does not belong on this roster at this point...
Hagelin was by far the best Ranger, HM to Stepan.
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Agree with every line.
 
Garian Maborik said:
I thought refs usually call less penalties in the playoffs and let the teams decide the games. I feel like I saw calls we never see during the regular season.
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Even we got a stupid call our way. That "boarding" call after the icing. That was pathetic, and because it was pathetic, you just knew they were going to either let a few things slide for the Caps or they would return the favor by calling some kind of ******** on us.

Enter Asham..
 
haveandare said:
No, not "so" that at all. You made up that entire narrative. In hindsight, that was when the game was lost. Anyone could and should have seen that.
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Mark Messier frowns at the team then. If they're not mentally tough, and persistent, they're not winning anything
 
kenjets36 said:
You'd think they'd have developed some sort of sensor in the puck by now. They have camera's in the back of the net, seems more efficient to put some sort of sensor on the red line and another in the puck that triggers the red light once it crosses the red line.
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I've often thought the same thing. The same technology that EZPass is based on should be able to handle this kind of thing.
 
The refs all around the league have been making calls I don't think they would've made in last years' playoffs. It's frustrating but it appears to be a mandate.

The Asham call was awful though.
 
CaliDubiZib said:
Mark Messier frowns at the team then. If they're not mentally tough, and persistent, they're not winning anything
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I don't disagree. But I also don't think that realizing in hindsight when the game was lost is a sign of not being mentally tough. People are in freakout mode about the loss and overreacting about anything they can grab on to. That period of time was clearly when the game got away from them. Admitting that after the fact isn't a sign of anything - it's standard post-loss interview stuff.
 
ImIdaho said:
Even we got a stupid call our way. That "boarding" call after the icing. That was pathetic, and because it was pathetic, you just knew they were going to either let a few things slide for the Caps or they would return the favor by calling some kind of ******** on us.

Enter Asham..
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There was definitely bad calls in both directions. You simply can't so lightly grant a team their 3rd power play in minutes on a penalty like Asham's in the playoffs. If Asham commits a real penalty this discussion wouldn't even be happening.
 
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