In the dying seconds, the Philadelphia Flyers pulled goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky for an extra attacker. During the skirmish in the Rangers' zone, Ryan Callahan cleared the puck, and headed to shoot it into the empty net, when he was hooked up by Kimmo Timonen heading for the puck. In the midst of said hook, Callahan briefly took his hand off of his stick to nudge the stick out of the way, without gripping it at all, to protect his face. The referees called coincidental minor penalties on both Timonen for hooking, and Callahan for grabbing the stick. During the 4-on-4, the Flyers pulled their goaltender again to get an extra attacker on the ice, nearly got the puck in, but Ryan McDonagh dove into the crease, and used his hands to dig the puck out which lead to a penalty shot by Danny Briere, that Henrik Lundqvist stopped and the Rangers held onto the lead to a victory. During this entire drama, I was damn near ready to pull my hair out because of the lopsidedness of the calls. I was thinking that the refs were doing it on purpose to favor the home town crowd or the NHL higher-ups to send the game into overtime for higher ratings or some other wild fantasy that ran through my mind. I too questioned the integrity of the calls made on the ice in that final minute, along with everyone else I watched the game with, and at the end of it all, coach John Tortorella made a statement about how he thought that the officiating in the 3rd period was "disgusting," and that maybe the NHL and NBC got together to get the game to overtime.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Why The Fining of John Tortorella For His Comments About The Refereeing in the Winter Classic Is Malarkey
Over 40,000 people trekked to Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia to watch the Winter Classic on January 2nd, and over a million people tuned in on television to watch the game. A lot of people who tuned in also got to witness some questionable calls by the referees in the dying seconds of the 3rd period that to a vast majority of the audience, seemed to be favoring getting the game into overtime.
In the dying seconds, the Philadelphia Flyers pulled goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky for an extra attacker. During the skirmish in the Rangers' zone, Ryan Callahan cleared the puck, and headed to shoot it into the empty net, when he was hooked up by Kimmo Timonen heading for the puck. In the midst of said hook, Callahan briefly took his hand off of his stick to nudge the stick out of the way, without gripping it at all, to protect his face. The referees called coincidental minor penalties on both Timonen for hooking, and Callahan for grabbing the stick. During the 4-on-4, the Flyers pulled their goaltender again to get an extra attacker on the ice, nearly got the puck in, but Ryan McDonagh dove into the crease, and used his hands to dig the puck out which lead to a penalty shot by Danny Briere, that Henrik Lundqvist stopped and the Rangers held onto the lead to a victory. During this entire drama, I was damn near ready to pull my hair out because of the lopsidedness of the calls. I was thinking that the refs were doing it on purpose to favor the home town crowd or the NHL higher-ups to send the game into overtime for higher ratings or some other wild fantasy that ran through my mind. I too questioned the integrity of the calls made on the ice in that final minute, along with everyone else I watched the game with, and at the end of it all, coach John Tortorella made a statement about how he thought that the officiating in the 3rd period was "disgusting," and that maybe the NHL and NBC got together to get the game to overtime.
In the dying seconds, the Philadelphia Flyers pulled goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky for an extra attacker. During the skirmish in the Rangers' zone, Ryan Callahan cleared the puck, and headed to shoot it into the empty net, when he was hooked up by Kimmo Timonen heading for the puck. In the midst of said hook, Callahan briefly took his hand off of his stick to nudge the stick out of the way, without gripping it at all, to protect his face. The referees called coincidental minor penalties on both Timonen for hooking, and Callahan for grabbing the stick. During the 4-on-4, the Flyers pulled their goaltender again to get an extra attacker on the ice, nearly got the puck in, but Ryan McDonagh dove into the crease, and used his hands to dig the puck out which lead to a penalty shot by Danny Briere, that Henrik Lundqvist stopped and the Rangers held onto the lead to a victory. During this entire drama, I was damn near ready to pull my hair out because of the lopsidedness of the calls. I was thinking that the refs were doing it on purpose to favor the home town crowd or the NHL higher-ups to send the game into overtime for higher ratings or some other wild fantasy that ran through my mind. I too questioned the integrity of the calls made on the ice in that final minute, along with everyone else I watched the game with, and at the end of it all, coach John Tortorella made a statement about how he thought that the officiating in the 3rd period was "disgusting," and that maybe the NHL and NBC got together to get the game to overtime.
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