Goaltender Interference in the New NHL

[Winged_Wheel88]

Just for laughs.

 

[dash]

I blame that damn trapezoid, WW...

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

The officiating in Wings games this year has been worse than horseshit. Has this been true across the entire league? I have not caught any other games, but a friend just said the Preds were screwed tonight, too.

 

[elocomotive]

The officiating in Wings games this year has been worse than horseshit. Has this been true across the entire league? I have not caught any other games, but a friend just said the Preds were screwed tonight, too.

I've seen pretty good officiating in other games I've watched. Tonight was not the best.

But that said, I've said repeatedly that the NHL continues to implement subjective and nuanced rules instead of having simple rules that make the game easier to referee.

Human eyes and judgment do not change significantly in short spans of time.

Poor rule making certainly can.

 

[Canuck eh?]

Just for laughs.

The feed that I got had Craig McTavish defending the referee.

 

[sherbert1421]

won't see a call as bad as that the rest of the season. can't believe every single official missed that. That has nothing to do with rule making and has everything to do with incompetence.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

But that said, I've said repeatedly that the NHL continues to implement subjective and nuanced rules instead of having simple rules that make the game easier to referee.

This I agree 100% with.

But this specific gif indicates a whole new level of officiating. As Sherbert said, it had nothing to do with nuanced rules.

 

[juliansteed]

I can't really fault the officials for this one. The NHL put them in this predicament.

What the NHL needs to start doing is random midichlorian testing. Otherwise the officials have no way of knowing which players are Sith lords. In this instance the officials were forced (no pun intended) to speculate that Glendening was a Sith lord and used the dark side of the Force to trip Holtby. We can argue back and forth if they were correct or not but nobody knows for sure, so how can we expect the officials to know?

Besides the random testing, the only other option would be to make sure that the NHL has at least 1 Jedi knight officiating each game. But as we've all know for years, that will never work because their union would never vote for that, since it is comprised of mostly non-Jedi members and no true Jedi would use his mind tricks to manipulate a CBA vote.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

I can't really fault the officials for this one. The NHL put them in this predicament.

What the NHL needs to start doing is random midichlorian testing. Otherwise the officials have no way of knowing which players are Sith lords. In this instance the officials were forced (no pun intended) to speculate that Glendening was a Sith lord and used the dark side of the Force to trip Holtby. We can argue back and forth if they were correct or not but nobody knows for sure, so how can we expect the officials to know?

Besides the random testing, the only other option would be to make sure that the NHL has at least 1 Jedi knight officiating each game. But as we've all know for years, that will never work because their union would never vote for that, since it is comprised of mostly non-Jedi members and no true Jedi would use his mind tricks to manipulate a CBA vote.

You could have just asked for the gif:

 

[Abe Vigoda]

That was a terribly blown call.

I thoroughly enjoyed the banana nose incident. I like how Smith just sturdied himself and prepared for impact.

 

[Comeds]

You could have just asked for the gif:

That was just a two minute minor if I remember correctly.

 

[Canuck eh?]

That was just a two minute minor if I remember correctly.

And a dive?

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Brutal is all I'll say.

If they had lost by one goal.....

 

[forty_three]

I can't really fault the officials for this one. The NHL put them in this predicament.

What the NHL needs to start doing is random midichlorian testing. Otherwise the officials have no way of knowing which players are Sith lords. In this instance the officials were forced (no pun intended) to speculate that Glendening was a Sith lord and used the dark side of the Force to trip Holtby. We can argue back and forth if they were correct or not but nobody knows for sure, so how can we expect the officials to know?

Besides the random testing, the only other option would be to make sure that the NHL has at least 1 Jedi knight officiating each game. But as we've all know for years, that will never work because their union would never vote for that, since it is comprised of mostly non-Jedi members and no true Jedi would use his mind tricks to manipulate a CBA vote.

pssssh

If you study the advanced stats, it becomes obvious who is a Sith. Regardless of what the scoreboard says.

 

[mattola]

Wow. That is brutal. W

 

[forty_three]

Babs consulted an expert before deciding to yell at the ref about it.

 

[pixburgher66]

You have to see the other angle too...makes it even worse. Literally zero contact.

 

[forty_three]

I can't really fault the officials for this one. The NHL put them in this predicament.

What the NHL needs to start doing is random midichlorian testing. Otherwise the officials have no way of knowing which players are Sith lords. In this instance the officials were forced (no pun intended) to speculate that Glendening was a Sith lord and used the dark side of the Force to trip Holtby. We can argue back and forth if they were correct or not but nobody knows for sure, so how can we expect the officials to know?

Besides the random testing, the only other option would be to make sure that the NHL has at least 1 Jedi knight officiating each game. But as we've all know for years, that will never work because their union would never vote for that, since it is comprised of mostly non-Jedi members and no true Jedi would use his mind tricks to manipulate a CBA vote.

Oh shit. You are on to something here.

 

[esls79]

Babs consulted an expert before deciding to yell at the ref about it.

Didn't anybody ever tell Pierre snitches get stitches?

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Didn't anybody ever tell Pierre snitches get stitches?

All Pierre really did was tell Babcock about Holtby's peewee and junior coaches.

And about that one time when they were kids when Holtby's mom accidentally dropped Clarke MacArthur off at the wrong house because he lived in Lloyminster, Alberta, and she took him to Lloyminster, Saskatchewan.