Goaltender Interference in the New NHL

[dash]

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.

That started off quite crude but ended up fine (some might say refined) in the end.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

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

If you can read lips, the actual conversation was this:

Mike[Yelling]: PIERRE! Was that a good call or bad call?

Pierre: From what I saw, it was a good call! Good call! The refs got it right!

Mike: Thanks, that confirmed what I thought.

Mike[yelling again]: HEY REF!! GET OVER HERE!! YOU FUCKING BLEW THAT PLAY!

 

[forty_three]

If you can read lips, the actual conversation was this:

Mike[Yelling]: PIERRE! Was that a good call or bad call?

Pierre: From what I saw, it was a good call! Good call! The refs got it right!

Mike: Thanks, that confirmed what I thought.

Mike[yelling again]: HEY REF!! GET OVER HERE!! YOU FUCKING BLEW THAT PLAY!

I got:

Mike: "Pierre, what is that thing in there with you?"
Pierre: (startled) "It's a surface Tablet"
Mike: "FUCKING WINDOWS" *motions to ref* "Can you fucking believe this shit? He can't even figure out an iPad."

 

[Darkstone42]

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.

Nominated for post of the year.

 

[mattola]

brings confirmation to me that the refs react to motion and try to deduct what their minds allow as fast as possible

shit the goalie fell

shit that guy was sorta near

shit Im going to miss this

shit safe call is no goal goalie interference, confer with linesmen and refs be damned

 

[mattola]

Oh shit. You are on to something here.

fuck the ref was looking right at it. this makes no sense (and I dont mean the star wars addition) the ref was looking right fucking at this.

my god he should be fired outright

 

[elocomotive]

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.

POTY.