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2018-19 Miscellaneous News Thread

The crazy part of the penalty is apparently the on ice ref told one of the Knights that Pavelski was cross checked in the face. They didn't even see it, yet called the 5 minute major because the outcome was bad. The cross check to the chest happens on about 50% of face offs. Just plain inexcusable.
 
I think it was a set play. Cody told statsny that he was gonna push pavelski towards his right and wanted stats to slide over, trip him and shove him head first into the ice. The refs should have given statsny a 5 and ejection at the same time.

Or maybe it was an incidental push, not even a cross check, that pushed him in the path of stats. It also looked like stats was both trying to get out of the way and push pavelski out of the way at the same time when he went down.

Which is preferred? With thanks to ‘murder on the orient express’.
 
dwind said:
I think it was a set play. Cody told statsny that he was gonna push pavelski towards his right and wanted stats to slide over, trip him and shove him head first into the ice. The refs should have given statsny a 5 and ejection at the same time.

Or maybe it was an incidental push, not even a cross check, that pushed him in the path of stats. It also looked like stats was both trying to get out of the way and push pavelski out of the way at the same time when he went down.

Which is preferred? With thanks to ‘murder on the orient express’.
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I miss the insightful comments you used to make once upon a time. I find the humor in some of your posts now, but just sayin'
 
jeffbear said:
Honestly, Babs is still Babs ... but that roster was all kinds of screwed up. It's tougher than people think in the cap era to make changes, but that Toronto defense group is just weird. Adding Muzzin at the deadline helped balance things out, but ... no. They knew full well going into this season that they were probably going to end up with either Tampa or Boston in the first round, and they just didn't do half enough to address the obvious roster problems that would expose. You're just not going to get far in the post season with that big an emphasis on offense.
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Babs is getting roasted by a ton of former players for being so stubborn and stuck in his ways that he simply refuses to play his big stars the amount that every other team does. Matthews had 6 minutes of ice time in that third period...some of Babs fourth line pluggers had close to that...something is really messed up with that. Babcock is full of himself, he will likely get one more season, but if this first round exit thing he does goes another year, he is toast in Toronto.
 
andyt said:
And the consensus on Twitter is that should have been a 2 minute minor. The crosscheck didn’t cause the injury, it was the secondary contact with Stastny
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In a world where we are getting accustomed to shit officiating, they manage to lower the bar yet again, what a shit show by the zebras last night to leave their own personal fecal stain on a great series.
 
CanadaCanes said:
Babs is getting roasted by a ton of former players for being so stubborn and stuck in his ways that he simply refuses to play his big stars the amount that every other team does. Matthews had 6 minutes of ice time in that third period...some of Babs fourth line pluggers had close to that...something is really messed up with that. Babcock is full of himself, he will likely get one more season, but if this first round exit thing he does goes another year, he is toast in Toronto.
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Sure, I get it. I also feel that if they actually give Babs a balanced roster he'll be just fine.
 
Yeah, Reardon is horrible. Will be much different next round with Trotz coming in.......you know the guy that should be coaching the Caps if they weren't so screwed up.
 
TheBigKahuna said:
I'll place money on the Caps firing Kevin Malone....I mean Reardon, within the next 7 days. He's terrible.
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I really think the only way Reirden doesn't get fired is that Ted Leonsis has too big an ego to admit that he screwed up so badly letting Trotz walk just because he wanted to be paid what he'd EARNED. Reirden is the guy who got handed the keys to the brand new Lambo and wrapped it around the first telephone pole he saw. He wasn't just out coached (by another first year coach, mind you), he FROZE. The only decent adjustment he made in the whole series was dumping that stiff Djoos for Seigenthaller ... and he dithered over that for a game too long. That was as bad a playoff coaching performance as any I've seen since Michel Therrien handed the Canes a series win against Montreal in 2002.
 
jeffbear said:
I really think the only way Reirden doesn't get fired is that Ted Leonsis has too big an ego to admit that he screwed up so badly letting Trotz walk just because he wanted to be paid what he'd EARNED. Reirden is the guy who got handed the keys to the brand new Lambo and wrapped it around the first telephone pole he saw. He wasn't just out coached (by another first year coach, mind you), he FROZE. The only decent adjustment he made in the whole series was dumping that stiff Djoos for Seigenthaller ... and he dithered over that for a game too long. That was as bad a playoff coaching performance as any I've seen since Michel Therrien handed the Canes a series win against Montreal in 2002.
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The look on Reirden's face behind the bench in overtime when the Canes were controlling play did not look like a man that was confident in his job or his team and that series loss reaffirmed how bad the Caps misfired by letting Trotz walk for that guy.
 
andyt said:
Referees and linesmen for round 2. The Peel/O’Rourke tandem advanced intact. O’Halloran and Furlatt did not, after their fine performance in San Jose/Vegas game 7. Its the first time in over 10 years that O’Halloran didn’t make at least the conference finals.

https://scoutingtherefs.com/2019/04...men-for-round-2-of-2019-stanley-cup-playoffs/


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I know he's never been my favorite, but IMO O'Halloran's work has declined markedly over the last two seasons. Not sure if he's just getting too old for the pace of the modern game or what. He's never been particularly good, butI never thought he was particularly bad either ... now he is. I'm glad to see that Brad Meier was also not chosen to move on. He's stupidly inconsistent and made a mess of that one Bruins/Leafs game. Chris Lee of course, has always been horrible. As to the linesmen, losing Kovachik, Pancich and Sericolo will cut down on pointless lecturing in the faceoff circle by a good 40%.

As to those moving on, I'm disgruntled to see Steve Kozari on the list. He has NEVER been a good ref, and how he's managed to hang around thins long is a freaking mystery to me. The rest are simply the best of a bad lot. Bill McCreary ain't walking through that door. Heck, I'd take Kerry Frazier's crazy butt over ANY of these guys ... except for maybe Wes McCauley who I almost trust to be fair ... if not actually good.
 
O’Halloran is retiring after next season, so San Jose/Vegas game 7 was his last playoff game. His decline reminds me of Terry Gregson, who was a skating corpse his last few years.
 
Bruins took Game 1 in OT from the Columbus. Advantage team that hasn't been sitting around for 10 days (we hope?)
 
andyt said:
O’Halloran is retiring after next season, so San Jose/Vegas game 7 was his last playoff game. His decline reminds me of Terry Gregson, who was a skating corpse his last few years.
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Or Chris Lee who has been a skating corpse for 5 years now?
 
cmaleski2 said:
Bruins took Game 1 in OT from the Columbus. Advantage team that hasn't been sitting around for 10 days (we hope?)
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Columbus was definitely fresher, but they were also definitely rusty. They got going eventually, but they were rough in that first period.
 
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