A lot of what you just said is ridiculous. It no way cost them the series? Umm, it’s game 6 in OT with a chance to move on. This isn’t game 1. Gretzky high sticks Gilmour and is not kicked out and then he scores the winner. That doesn’t happen if the correct call is made.
Wayne Gretzky doesn't score the winner if the correct call is made, but the Maple Leafs don't magically win the game if the call is made either. The game goes on if the call is made and the winner is still a flip of the coin. This call in no way cost the Leafs the game or the series as the myth now claims.
As to whether Fraser saw it or not, I don’t know. That was just my guess, but there’s logic to it. I mean Gretzky has the puck, so you’d have to think Fraser is looking. Where else would he be looking? We will never know for sure what happened, so everyone has their own opinion on what happened. My opinion is that he saw it and decided not to call it. Could I be wrong? Sure, no doubt, but that’s what I believe happened.
You seem to have answered your own question, but don't want to follow your own logic.
Gretzky took the shot, seems pretty natural Fraser's eyes would go with the puck, that was then blocked by Macoun. Gilmour drifts in on the follow through and gets clipped.
In real time, even the play by play team doesn't see the high stick. They mistakenly think that Gilmour was hit by the shot. "The shot, that's blocked, and it hurt Gilmour. He stopped the shot, it hurt him, and he fell..."
You believe that Kerry Fraser saw it, but for some reason only you understand choose not to call it, and then he huddled with the all the other officials on the ice to determine what had happened and they all conspired together to not give the Maple Leafs a power play?
Really? That's what you believe?
Bad calls go against lots of teams, but how many teams have a call like that go against them with a trip to the finals on the line? Doesn’t happen all the time. As a Leafs fan at that time, I felt the team got screwed, and like it or not, a lot of Leafs fans still believe they got screwed.
Except "a trip to the Finals (sic)" wasn't on the line. Regardless of this call, the Maple Leafs still had a chance to win Game Six and still had a chance to win Game Seven and they failed at both of those things.
If this call is made, they don't suddenly go to the Final. This is a false equivalency that Leaf fans have been pitching for years, and it's a joke.