GDT: 12/16/14 - Wild @ Hawks - 7:30PM / 3:30AM - FS-N, FS-WI - Emergency GDT

[behemolari]

It was a bad call tonight, but there is no conspiracy. Wild have lost plenty games all on their own. They are low in the standings due to a crappy PP. Not the refs.

is it's too obvious to call it conspiracy? i think it is

 

[BigT2002]

Didn't the NFL come out and admit the refs got a call wrong in the Seahawks game. NHL protects their refs so much it's disgusting

I asked on the main thread a year or two ago and they get reprimanded but they won't do it publicly because they believe it will diminish the game. And many of these guys go on to ref the international events.

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

Sick to my stomach. We did give up 40 shots but battled back in the 3rd.

 

[gphr513]

 

[BigT2002]

it would end up being a shaming, but it'd be nice if the teams could critique the reffing point by point with video examples.

That I would love. They rip the players a new one with the safety videos. Do it with the refs demonstrating what went wrong. The bs aspect though is what greenlay stated: it was a hook just not the right time to call it and not blatant enough to warrant it.

 

[BurnsyMN]

I asked on the main thread a year or two ago and they get reprimanded but they won't do it publicly because they believe it will diminish the game. And many of these guys go on to ref the international events.

I guess if you're trying to grow the game, publicly shaming the refs doesn't help at all. If I remember correctly, Brad Meier didn't ref any playoff games after the Wild/Avalanche series

 

[Dee Oh Cee]

my god that goal was lucky too. ****ing ********.

 

[00xtremeninja]

the NHL won't do it because they don't want to ruin their "oh we are the least blemished of the big 4 sports."

little do a majority of the NHL people realize that a vast majority of the nation could give a fluff less about them and the shaming of a ref would be brushed under the rug pretty quick

 

[123TripleDoge]

i wouldn't call it a conspiracy, but it's pretty blatant which teams get those calls and which do not. If I were a hawks fan, like i said, i'd be sickened by what occurred. Of course though, that's the market the league needs to empower and make them gods otherwise they wont follow the sport.

On a semi related note, imagine if Illinois and say NY state were actual hockey states..... we'd beat Canada in every olympics lol, simple population stats.

 

[NHL1674]

is it's too obvious to call it conspiracy? i think it is

To blame the refs nightly or that they are affecting the standings is silly. It was a bad call tonight. Absolutely. But the Wild are where they are based on their own play. They've been gifted many PP's including 5 minute ones that they pissed away. Their horrid PP is what has affected their spot in the standings. Not the refs.

 

[gphr513]

To blame the refs nightly or that they are affecting the standings is silly. It was a bad call tonight. Absolutely. But the Wild are where they are based on their own play. They've been gifted many PP's including 5 minute ones that they pissed away. Their horrid PP is what has affected their spot in the standings. Not the refs.

cosign.

I hate the reffing conspiracy stuff. It was not a good call. But, kill the penalty and you don't have to worry about it.

Move on to Boston tomorrow.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Prosser penalty, Haula penalty and Fontaine elbow non-call are my gripes.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

To blame the refs nightly or that they are affecting the standings is silly. It was a bad call tonight. Absolutely. But the Wild are where they are based on their own play. They've been gifted many PP's including 5 minute ones that they pissed away. Their horrid PP is what has affected their spot in the standings. Not the refs.

Is it really 'gifted' if they're deserved?

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[Dee Oh Cee]

Haula came out and straight up called it a weak penalty. good for him. (bad for his wallet maybe)

 

[NHL1674]

Is it really 'gifted' if they're deserved?

Gifted may have been the wrong word...they deserved a lot of them. Either way, they blew most of them. They have lost many points from the PP failure. And that is why they are behind the pack.

 

[Wild48]

Bottom line is you can't have periods like the Wild played in the second and expect to beat the Blackhawks.

Yes the refs gave them two soft powerplays after the Wild tied it back up... but that's not why the Wild lost. The Wild lost because they watched the blackhawks skate circles around them for the 2nd.

How hard is it to TRY for 3 periods. Things may not go your way, but an entire period of no-hustle stupidity is really frustrating to watch.

I wonder how big the pitchforks would have been when Folin got his pocket picked that lead to the goal if it had been #55 losing the puck.

 

[PariseNation]

Ugh Nino is disgusting. So much talent.

Yeo's logic is really bugging me out.

 

[123TripleDoge]

trying to think, what was the last super bs call like this that led to a wild victory?

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[Dee Oh Cee]

Ha and now Russo says Backstrom is sick too. what the hell is next.

 

[gphr513]

filthy.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

Ha and now Russo says Backstrom is sick too. what the hell is next.

Curry might start tomorrow. Oh god...

 

[StealthClobber]

Russo: Backstrom got sick in the first period and battled through with the same thing Kuemper had.

Please don't tell me both our goalies got the M on the same night.

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

Curry got pulled off the ice after 40 minutes tonight in IA after 33 saves and 1 GA. He is starting tomorrow it looks like.

Hell fellas, both the goalies are sick so we may have 2 goalies here tomorrow we haven't seen much of

 

[Dee Oh Cee]

Never ends with this team. Can't have anything go our way.

Oh and there's Walz trying to defend that call. Hm. Nope.