Originally Posted by Matrix:
The NHL needs to die. I would not miss it. Cards, Chiefs, Mizzou football and the Billikens will only occupy my time going forward.
I'm getting there. But I love to play.
Fuck the "we'll fix it next year, maybe" NHL. [Reply]
As a Golden Knights fan, seeing the Sharks get major help from the refs AGAIN just makes me utterly sick. The league already robbed us blind in the last round, and now they've done it to the Blues. It's a disgrace and it would go down as the most unjust victory In NHL history if they get their dirty hands on the Stanley Cup, It really would. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Matrix:
The league went downhill when Gary Buttass took over. I love the lovable losers that are the Blues, but the NHL deserves a horrific fall.
With the TV ratings crap the appear to be doing (or are just having a great streak of "accidenting" into to it), it's hard to argue against your point.
But again, "they'll fix it in the off season"!!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by GloryDayz:
With the TV ratings crap the appear to be doing (or are just having a great streak of "accidenting" into to it), it's hard to argue against your point.
But again, "they'll fix it in the off season"!!!
The league and the TV execs should be hyping the shit out of the 52 year curse, because its right up there with the Curse of the Bambino and the Billy Goat curse, but fucking no, We GoTTa GeT JoE ThOrhToN a CuP. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Matrix:
The league and the TV execs should be hyping the shit out of the 52 year curse, because its right up there with the Curse of the Bambino and the Billy Goat curse, but fucking no, We GoTTa GeT JoE ThOrhToN a CuP.
Agree.
This is why I don't care what happens to officials in professional sports anymore. They're granted the ability to affect games to whatever degree they want, then when they clearly fuck a team they're "just human", innocent little angels, and "doing the best they can."
That's why I hope they get shot at a few times tomorrow, just a warning shot across the bow perhaps. Then put one square in the official's teeth who fucked up last might's call. He's earned new teeth!
Wait for it, wait for it...... "They miss calls all the time"!!! LOL [Reply]
Originally Posted by Matrix:
The league went downhill when Gary Buttass took over. I love the lovable losers that are the Blues, but the NHL deserves a horrific fall.
:-) The NHL is fine. It's like you guys are forgetting the fact that the Chiefs lost out on a Super Bowl this year because a dude was 3 inches offsides. Officiating is an issue in every league these days. [Reply]
As a rule, I don't believe in conspiracy theories, so the idea that the refs were consciously making calls for the Sharks isn't really a thing for me.
However, it must be asked, just what were all four officials looking at during that play? I would like to think that they should've all been watching that puck twirling down out of the sky, and just like the rest of us, saw the hand pass in realtime, no instant replay required. It is hard to believe that not one of the four officials saw the same thing that the entire TV audience caught the first time around. [Reply]
I'm so fucking sick of officials fucking up every sport known to man. I'd like to see these refs stuck into an arena gladiator style and forced to fight lions with their rape whistles.How do they get away with incompetence/dishonesty with such impunity? They're basically mob. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Otter:
I'm so fucking sick of officials fucking up every sport known to man. I'd like to see these refs stuck into an arena gladiator style and forced to fight lions.How do they get away with incompetence with such impunity?
The actual answer is that viewing has changed, not the refs. But that's not a very satisfying answer. [Reply]