GDT: WCF Game 3: Blues vs. Sharks | NBCSN 7pm CT | Power Play Goals? Who Needs 'Em

[Sushiko]

So my family, who love the sharks, think they are getting the cup handed to them, and they are fine with it. They say sharks have been screwed enough and they deserve it, and they have watched for almost thirty years so it’s about time. The blues 50 plus doesn’t count. They say the refs are awful but they only care about a cup and they don’t care how they get it. So that’s that I guess.

 

[SanFranBluesFan]

So my family, who love the shakes, think they are getting the cup handed to them, and they are fine with it. They say sharks have been screwed enough and they deserve it, and they have watched for almost thirty years so it’s about time. The blues 50 plus doesn’t count. They say the refs are awful but they only care about a cup and they don’t care how they get it. So that’s that I guess.

Sound like really shitty people, aka Sharks fans

 

[Sushiko]

Sound like really ****ty people, aka Sharks fans

Well I don’t find them shitty, but their thinking is. Still, what can I expect them to do? They could be against it, but it’s not like the refs will change or anything will change depending on the fans. I suppose if it were the other way around I’d feel and hate it but what could I do? It sucks though and I don’t want to deal with them when they win. It’s annoying because I want to turn everything hockey off at my house but it ain’t happening.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

The thing that pisses me off, is that they don't seem to want to get the call right. On the interview with JR this morning, they referenced that Puckdaddy said six times this season, refs have used Jumbotron replay to get the call right.

Do these guys even have any common sense or use their brain. This BS, "The play can't be reviewed" is such a cop out.

Using the Jumbotron to correct nonreviewable calls is maverick reffing. It’s outside the rule book. The reason these guys are the conference finals refs is because they enforce the rules as written.

It sucks that none of the 4 officials saw it. But the solution is to codify support for the officials to benefit from the same obvious replays everyone else in the world could see.

 

[ManyIdeas]

No suspension/fine for Blasis hit on Braun. More Shark's ref bias. So head shots are A OK now.. Good to know.. Can take out their stars now.. All fans are HATE how the playoff standard change.. NHL loves violence.

shut up you nerd

 

[DuckTech]

So, after some sleep on it I've calmed down about things. The entire situation is horse ****! IF there was a tripping give the 2 min minor and let us fight for the win. IF the refs missed the call I thought all goals in overtime were supposed to be reviewed in Toronto and should have just re-dropped the puck and given the chance to again fight for the win.

The only thing I hope for is that this puts a fire in the belly of the team and try to take it out of the hands of the refs. NHL ref's we are all watching you much closer now!

 

[carter333167]

Lawl, several online sport betting sites have refunded money line bets on the blues due to the **** last night. Online gambling has more integrity than the NHL...

Far more integrity. Integrity in Toronto is a vacuum.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

So my family, who love the sharks, think they are getting the cup handed to them, and they are fine with it. They say sharks have been screwed enough and they deserve it, and they have watched for almost thirty years so it’s about time. The blues 50 plus doesn’t count. They say the refs are awful but they only care about a cup and they don’t care how they get it. So that’s that I guess.

That's the tone I see on the main boards.

So the Blues need to regroup and stop this from happening.

If not us, then the Bruins.

 

[Brian39]

I'm not going to pretend an be angry at Sharks fans for being happy. No one should be expecting Sharks fans to bend over backwards to apologize for the NHL. If the Blues won a Cup because the league botched something, I'm sure as hell not skipping the parade or waiting for the next Cup to get excited.

This "actually we're the victim of officiating" push from Sharks fans is tiresome and laughable, but I don't see anything wrong with accepting your team got a few breaks and still enjoying a win.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

I’m still mad today, and I think I will be until the game tomorrow.

I do have this gut feeling we’re gonna see the Blues team from game 6 vs WPG, and the two elimination games against DAL for the rest of the series.

 

[blues hillbilly]

The NHL released a statement last night:

"Plays of this nature are not reviewable. A hand pass that goes into the net can be reviewed but a hand pass between teammates cannot be reviewed."

Along with this verbal answer from the director of officiating for this series, Kay Whitmore:

"It's a nonreviewable play. You can read between the lines. You can figure out what you want. You watched the video. But it's just nonreviewable. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but that's the truth."

The NHL and Karen Whitmore are arrogant pseudo-intellectuals with important corporate work to tend to.

Two games and series outcomes in the Lord Stanley Cup Playoffs seriously gotten WRONG by the Refs and Toronto HDQs doesn't even have the gonads to apologize to the losing fans and teams.

The truth is the Refs, the rules and the league effed up. The NFL at least tries to get it right. The NHL can't even say it's top priority to get it right. They know it's effed up and like to wallow in their own brown piles.

The NHL is as clownish as the NBA and NCAAB which I quit following over 30 years ago. I quit baseball for ten years until they at least tried to re-educate the umpires on the strike zone.

NHL be forewarned your next mule.

 

[albator71]

Im still f***ing piss and im not even a Blues fan. the Sharks shouldn't even still be playing right now. i hate their faces. and they look like hippies. I want the Blues to win the cup because you deserve it more then those buffoons.

 

[Stelmacki]

I’m betting some of the sharks fans going to game on Friday have a rough night.

 

[TheDizee]

Blues fans been waiting for a cup for 50+ years, but just move on and turn the page! Pretend it never happened so we can f*** you over again in G7!

 

[Ted Hoffman]

To be fair, I can't recall the NHL ever saying "you know what, this call was so terrible it affected the outcome of the game; we're going back and re-playing it from that spot." I can't recall the NFL ever doing that either. [What both leagues have in common: teams do not have the ability to protest a game.] The NFL does grant the Commissioner the ability to intervene in a game result due to "extraordinarily unfair acts" but that authority has never been exercised.

MLB gives teams the ability to protest, so it's happened there - but even then, it's really infrequent. [15 times, ever.] NBA also gives teams the ability to protest, and those instances are even more rare. [8 such cases.]

My opinion: the call was shit, and we know it. Championship teams overcome adversity and go find a way to win. Let's go out and win the next 3 games and make the Sharks STFU once and for all.

 

[Dbrownss]

Strickland twitted out last nights officiating crew has been dismissed. No more playoff games for them. So there's that.

 

[TheDizee]

Strickland twitted out last nights officiating crew has been dismissed. No more playoff games for them. So there's that.

could be a very big loss for ref jose since those refs had a 11-2 record combined for the sharks this postseason.

it doesnt make the situation right though but nothing anyone can do about that now.

 

[carter333167]

Well I don’t find them ****ty, but their thinking is. Still, what can I expect them to do? They could be against it, but it’s not like the refs will change or anything will change depending on the fans. I suppose if it were the other way around I’d feel and hate it but what could I do? It sucks though and I don’t want to deal with them when they win. It’s annoying because I want to turn everything hockey off at my house but it ain’t happening.

If it were the other way around, most Blues HF'ers would openly admit that we were gifted a game we had not won. Sharks' HF'ers seem incapable of even admitting as much....preferring to divert attention to purported missed minors early in the game.

Look, former NHL'ers are pretty much all over Twitter saying it's a joke.....b/c it is a joke.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

I haven't checked, but are we still considered a really arrogant fan base here? Because I'm pretty sure we've been outdone in a fashion we can't ever top.

 

[Dbrownss]

If it were the other way around, most Blues HF'ers would openly admit that we were gifted a game we had not won. Sharks' HF'ers seem incapable of even admitting as much....preferring to divert attention to purported missed minors early in the game.

Look, former NHL'ers are pretty much all over Twitter saying it's a joke.....b/c it is a joke.

I'd easy say sorry, not sorry if it happened the other way.

Its not the Sharks fault, they benefited from piss poor reffing. Blues would have taken it and ran too. It does make them rat shit for not admitting it though. It's not like the league would reverse the game, they had nothing to lose and would probably gained some respect back. Anyways...Karlsson looks like a drowned rat anyways....

 

[Amberelise]

They made a commercial out of that bad call. The NHL is literally advertising with it. f*** THEM.

 

[Brockon]

They made a commercial out of that bad call. The NHL is literally advertising with it. **** THEM.

Wait. What?

 

[Amberelise]

Wait. What?

Yeah. During the Bruins/ Canes game. They asked how the Blues will respond after that controversial call.

I am not kidding.

 

[BergMan]

They made a commercial out of that bad call. The NHL is literally advertising with it. **** THEM.

Link?

Edit: saw the other post you made. Gotcha

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

They made a commercial out of that bad call. The NHL is literally advertising with it. **** THEM.

un * * * *ing real