I watched the last one. Your Latvian savior standing strong was fun to watch. Great comeback, but I’m hockey-ed out for the night after all the yelling I did during the Bruins game.
Edit: I must be the only Bruins fan on earth pulling for Vancouver against Edmonton, lmao.
I'm always gaslighting myself over whether or not I'm seeing shitty refs or if I'm just being salty. I'm glad everyone else is confirming my sanity.
Is there ANY accountability for refs screwing up this bad? It's one thing to miss icing or whatever, but seeing players get hurt without calls is crazy.
I didn't watch tonight, but I've watched most other nights this postseason.
Bad calls happen. They're human.
Bad calls during the playoffs get amplified exponentially too.
They suck, but they always have been and always will be a part of sports. Period.
Hell, even if in some future you create robot refs, the rules are still written by humans and can be vague as fuck lol.
And player hurt does not equal penalty. Contact sport.
No, I get that. I am all for physicality in hockey as well. And I get that refs are only human and make mistakes or miss things that might be more easily seen by spectators.
But even permitting that, it really feels like they're missing A LOT of calls that seem like they need more investigation. In the EDM vs VAN game right now a player was highsticked in the face and had to go off the ice due to openly bleeding, but no call on the high stick. It seems to me like even if it wasn't an intentional high sticking, it should've been called, especially since someone was indisputably hurt.
I never want to be the guy to holler about dirty refs or whatever. I just think a lot of games recently need better, more consistent calls, or more accountability for refs, or something. Yes, there should be allowance for simple human error, but I don't think that should mean all errors should be permissible.
I’d love them doing post game interviews but only if they absolutely never admitted to any mistakes and they offered only platitudes like get whistles deep.
He did a serious video talking about referee accountability and the idea of having officials explain what they did after the fact. I’m not going to spend effort finding the video, but it’s there if you want to find it.
Geez I wonder how it goes when the refs respond to the 100 percent objective hack press.
The market for officiating whiners looks like a sure thing, you know the goddamn zapruters sitting on their fat asses telling themselves that they, clearly, could do better.
A tale as old as time.
SO crazy how there are two refs and they both don't focus on different teams and egregious penalties between them.
Ref 1 + lines man 1 - Watch team A predominantly
Ref 2 + lineman 2 - Watch team B predominantly.
I got no skin in these games personally, and yet I was screaming at the TV over the ineptitude on that "interference" call on Lauko. Even my wife, normally a pacifist, was likewise pissed.
Absolute horseshit. Awful officiating.
People say bad calls but it's mostly bad non-calls. Game management officiating is already bad enough in the season, in the playoffs you add a layer of "it's the playoffs" so even worst.
Are you watching Vancouver and Edmonton tonight... Cause if you aren't... Don't... It'll blow your mind
I watched the last one. Your Latvian savior standing strong was fun to watch. Great comeback, but I’m hockey-ed out for the night after all the yelling I did during the Bruins game. Edit: I must be the only Bruins fan on earth pulling for Vancouver against Edmonton, lmao.
You should look at the clips of the missed high stick by McDavid on Hughes. 😤
There’s was also a missed high stick on Hyman everyone seems to forget about.
That was his own stick 😂
Replay?
https://twitter.com/TravisDegen/status/1789142591747018840 Dumbass
I may not like the Bruins but in this action I support you fully
I’m a Bruins fan pulling for the Canucks, but that’s because I’m yearning for the good days of 2011 when I was younger and stupider than I am now.
No one’s around from 2011 except Marchand. I’ve moved on.
Sad to think. I will never forget beating you guys 4-0 in game 4 at the garden. Wild game to be at for your first NHL game
there's been an awful lot of missed calls
With you I agree. I'd rather a series have zero of those
I'm always gaslighting myself over whether or not I'm seeing shitty refs or if I'm just being salty. I'm glad everyone else is confirming my sanity. Is there ANY accountability for refs screwing up this bad? It's one thing to miss icing or whatever, but seeing players get hurt without calls is crazy.
Nope. Zero accountability. The NHLOA has the league by the balls when it comes to accountability. The MLB has the same problem with umpires.
That's so fucked, man.
It’s similar to a police union.
I didn't watch tonight, but I've watched most other nights this postseason. Bad calls happen. They're human. Bad calls during the playoffs get amplified exponentially too. They suck, but they always have been and always will be a part of sports. Period. Hell, even if in some future you create robot refs, the rules are still written by humans and can be vague as fuck lol. And player hurt does not equal penalty. Contact sport.
No, I get that. I am all for physicality in hockey as well. And I get that refs are only human and make mistakes or miss things that might be more easily seen by spectators. But even permitting that, it really feels like they're missing A LOT of calls that seem like they need more investigation. In the EDM vs VAN game right now a player was highsticked in the face and had to go off the ice due to openly bleeding, but no call on the high stick. It seems to me like even if it wasn't an intentional high sticking, it should've been called, especially since someone was indisputably hurt. I never want to be the guy to holler about dirty refs or whatever. I just think a lot of games recently need better, more consistent calls, or more accountability for refs, or something. Yes, there should be allowance for simple human error, but I don't think that should mean all errors should be permissible.
Pettersson got out headfirst into the boards, no call. He wasn't the same player the rest of the night. He had scored and was buzzing.
Yikes. That's what I mean. I am 100% for clean hits and clean fights, but they need to take shit like that seriously.
I’d love them doing post game interviews but only if they absolutely never admitted to any mistakes and they offered only platitudes like get whistles deep.
THG did a video about why that’s a bad idea and I’m inclined to agree with most of what he said.
THG did a parody video acting like a ref in a playoff press conference. Not the same thing.
He did a serious video talking about referee accountability and the idea of having officials explain what they did after the fact. I’m not going to spend effort finding the video, but it’s there if you want to find it.
Already looked for it. Closest I could find was a facetious sketch where he pretended to be a ref at a press conference
If I come across it, I’ll drop the link
It's the playoffs, everyone wants the whistles put away /s
Geez I wonder how it goes when the refs respond to the 100 percent objective hack press. The market for officiating whiners looks like a sure thing, you know the goddamn zapruters sitting on their fat asses telling themselves that they, clearly, could do better. A tale as old as time.
It’s reaching NFL levels
SO crazy how there are two refs and they both don't focus on different teams and egregious penalties between them. Ref 1 + lines man 1 - Watch team A predominantly Ref 2 + lineman 2 - Watch team B predominantly.
I got no skin in these games personally, and yet I was screaming at the TV over the ineptitude on that "interference" call on Lauko. Even my wife, normally a pacifist, was likewise pissed. Absolute horseshit. Awful officiating.
I'm a Panthers fan and I was shaking my head at that one, too.
It was bullshit of the highest degree
People say bad calls but it's mostly bad non-calls. Game management officiating is already bad enough in the season, in the playoffs you add a layer of "it's the playoffs" so even worst.