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GDT: Round 2, Game 3. canes v. Caps 5/10 6:00

In that Hot Garbage Sports video comments section I mentioned something about Jarvis having one thing that McDavid and MacKinnon don't have: a huge personality and how the NHL should have a camera on him 24/7 and what a great story it is with him and his buddies. The reply from the guy:
He’s a great personality ! His friends are just as cool o was lucky enough to coach them all in winnipeg - fantastic humans
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andyt said:
DeCock said it was the kind of game that can eliminate a team mentally if not mathematically. The Caps threw everything they had for 25 minutes and still got shut out. That has to suck.
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I saw that. Thought it was a bit presumptuous but then I saw the Caps post game media scrums and ... woof. I really don't think that the Caps will fold because there's too much pride in that room and if nothing else, their hate for the Canes won't allow it. But, they DO sound like they're out of ideas. That said, Carolina needs to keep their foot on their necks. And while I think it's super important not to get sucked into playground antics with the likes of Wilson and Dowd, I do think it's important that Carolina stays on the body. They've out hit the Caps in both games they've won. And no, I don't think that's taking a physical toll (although the sheer volume of blocked shots the Caps are absorbing is certainly doing some of that), but it 100% is taking a mental toll on Washington. The Caps have that big team swagger and they like to be the aggressor. It confuses them when the other team dishes it back ... and not in a dirty/fighty way. More in an "eff you, we're not going anywhere" way. Thus far the Canes have ramped up their chip and annoy standard into something much more effective.
 
Oh, and the league office had to feel just peachy about the officiating yesterday. Two veterans with over 300 games of combined playoff experience and they barf up THAT hairball. Blake getting called for roughing for getting punched in the face, Svech getting called for God knows what for getting jumped by two Caps and a linesman and Staal somehow getting a high sticking call for doing absolutely nothing. Perfect game, boys. Just brilliant.
 
jeffbear said:
Oh, and the league office had to feel just peachy about the officiating yesterday. Two veterans with over 300 games of combined playoff experience and they barf up THAT hairball. Blake getting called for roughing for getting punched in the face, Svech getting called for God knows what for getting jumped by two Caps and a linesman and Staal somehow getting a high sticking call for doing absolutely nothing. Perfect game, boys. Just brilliant.
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Those “highlights “ you mentioned should be the training video for everything not to do for an official. The bar keeps getting lowered by these zebras despite the bar always being oh so low. Bettman and his misfits never will ever admit their is a problem and constantly praise that kind of blunder filled game with comments like “these guys are the best in the world “ and we have the best refs in sports…
 
Last night, that bar was on the floor but the officials still found a way to slither underneath it like a Slavin shot from the blue line in OT.
 
O’Rourke has worked 7 Finals, 4 of the last 5. He’s one of 3 NHL refs to have worked 200 playoff games (Sutherland and McCauley are the others).
 
andyt said:
O’Rourke has worked 7 Finals, 4 of the last 5. He’s one of 3 NHL refs to have worked 200 playoff games (Sutherland and McCauley are the others).
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Of the three of them, it's telling that two (O'Rourke and Sutherland) are most notable for their refusal to call anything more than the most obvious infraction. McCauley, for all his sins, at least has the stones to make a call. And those are the "best" refs the NHL has to offer by virtue of the fact that they're the only 3 with more than 200 playoff games worked. Other workhorse refs are such notables as Furlatt, Kozari, Lee and Rooney ... none of whom I'd trust to help me change a flat tire and all of whom share a common reluctance to actually blow a whistle. The standard of officiating in the NHL is just laughably bad.

And hey, by NHL standards Game 3 of Caps/Canes WAS perfect. Both teams got 2 power plays, nobody was seriously injured and neither coach threw the stick rack on the ice. The bar is THAT low.
 
jeffbear said:
Of the three of them, it's telling that two (O'Rourke and Sutherland) are most notable for their refusal to call anything more than the most obvious infraction. McCauley, for all his sins, at least has the stones to make a call. And those are the "best" refs the NHL has to offer by virtue of the fact that they're the only 3 with more than 200 playoff games worked. Other workhorse refs are such notables as Furlatt, Kozari, Lee and Rooney ... none of whom I'd trust to help me change a flat tire and all of whom share a common reluctance to actually blow a whistle. The standard of officiating in the NHL is just laughably bad.

And hey, by NHL standards Game 3 of Caps/Canes WAS perfect. Both teams got 2 power plays, nobody was seriously injured and neither coach threw the stick rack on the ice. The bar is THAT low.
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These numbers are as of the start of the season

Furlatt - 1,464 regular season games, 180 playoff games, 1 Final. 2nd most regular season games among active refs.
Kozari - 1,219 regular season games, 152 playoff games, 5 Finals
Lee - 1,418 regular season games, 120 playoff games, 0 Finals. 5th most regular season season games among active refs and the only ref with more than 100 playoff games without working the Finals. He didn’t work the playoffs this year.
Rooney - 1,463 regular season games, 170 playoff games, 7 Finals

Lee, Brian Pochmara, Wake Forest Freddie L’Ecuyer, Francois St. Laurent and Kyle Rehman are the only officials that had worked more than 1,000 regular season games without working a Final. The latter 3 have all worked fewer than 100 playoff games. And thrn we have my favorite NHL whipping boy, Ghislain Hebert, who worked his 1,000th regular season game this year and retired without ever having worked a playoff game. The next highest number of regular season games worked without a playoff game is Chris Schlenker, who had worked 425 regular season games prior to this season. He was a standby ref for the first round. In the other end of the spectrum are Jean Hebert and Francis Charron, neither of whom worked more than 750 regular season games but both have worked 2 finals.
 
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