For anyone who thinks that Leafs fans are just whining about the refs and that we don't actually have a legitimate point: in the last 3 games, Toronto has been shorthanded 14 times, while receiving only 3 powerplays.
My men's league team tends to get lazy because of long shifts. People stop moving their feet and reach with the sticks. It's like something lights up in the officials heads when players do that, every infraction becomes extra visible. Toronto was the same thing tonight. Looked like a lazy/skilled men's league team with a great goalie.
They had the 2 minute shifts and even the 3 forward change on the backcheck! We were yelling at each other in men's league for that!
That's even worse when you consider Kapanen was far more obstructed with earlier in the game.
Edit: grammar.
Nyquist was interfered with by Marner on a breakaway, Kapanen was prevented from getting a breakaway because of Murray. That's the way to do it. If you are about to get burned, hack a guy down before he gets a clear break, not after.
Atkinson holding Marincin's stick on the 2nd goal stopping him from using it against the puck carrier.
C'mon now, that is really subtle interference. If Millen didn't point it out I don't think anyone would have noticed.
On the tying goal, Milano lost an edge and fell and the camera feed shows even he was surprised it got called.
Maybe he was falling down on his own, but I don't get how you complain when Freddie's stick is clearly in Milano's skates. That's on Freddie.
5-0 impacts the game. 4-2, or 5-3 I can live with. But we played 10 minutes almost short handed of a 60 minute game, and there is no way 5-0 actually reflects the infractions.
I think it was 5 - 2 in the end. It could have been 8 - 4 honestly. They didn't even call everything on the Leafs. On two instances - I think Muzzin and Andersen - the Leafs player intentionally dislodged the net, in Andersen's case he clearly intentionally makes an extra push to dislodge the net. The refs did the Leafs a favor there.
