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Originally Posted by Eleven
That OT call in the Preds game has got to be the absolute worst job of officiating I have ever seen. How on earth do you call hooking in OT when the canuck was OBVIOUSLY holding the stick.
I'm just sick of the bad officiating, and really really tired of players who 'buy' calls. Like luongo and his call earlier in the game, snapping his head back when the stick was nowhere near his mask.
The canucks bought 2 PP goals tonight, and the last one cost the Preds the game. The NHL should be embarrassed. But I got the feeling they aren't. What a joke.
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Bah, officiating comes and goes in waves. Sometimes it's in your favour like it was for the Canucks last night, other times it's against you like it was for the Canucks in Game 2 and for much of the Chicago series. The had ref's arsed up badly on the Bieska hit a couple shifts before, that hit should have been called. The Weber hook on Kesler was partially a makeup call and partially a smart play by an experienced player to earn his team an advantage. All Weber had to do to prevent that from being called was let go of his stick, he held on an got called on a valid (albeit weak) penalty. Welcome to sports (and yes, I would have said exactly the same thing if the sides were reversed and the call had been against the Canucks).
As for Luongo, he's well known to be a prima dona who has a tendency to act and embellish the significance of contact. That doesn't make it right, but if the ref's bought it that's their fault not his. They could have always given him an unsportsmanlike call for the embellishment if they felt it was warranted. That said, the stick did hit his mask and the replays clearly showed it. That makes it high sticking just as much as any other accident contact against a skating player. Given that all the ref's are under instructions to reduce and prevent goaltender contact/interence in these playoffs that was simply a stupid mistake by the Predators player.