I could hardly believe my eyes! I spotted a Frans Nielsen scoring chance, I had heard the stories of it happening before, but never witnessed one before!
The officiating against us in the 1st period was maddening! Every tick tack thing gets called against us, twice they blatantly drag down our players get nothing, and then the stupid "offside" goal gets taken back. They need to change the challenge rule to be only allowed to be used on players that had direct contact with the puck going in, as Bertuzzi was not in the play at all. I would rather have no challenges at all on offsides as for the most part the linesmen do a good job for human beings making calls, and most of the challenges are ridiculous 50/50 offsides that have no bearing on whether a goal is scored or not.
Can we relax on the Cholo hate please? A young kid who is learning and is getting better, and is being given a lot more ice time, is going to have rough nights. They don't need to be doghoused immediately, as that is a good way to kill a kids confidence if every minor mistake or decent mistake means they lose ice time. Especially seeing as every single blueliner on our team makes tons of bad plays. Hronek made a number of bad plays last night and I didn't read any hate on him at all. Also no one else seems to mention it, but the majority of Cholo's D partners are Biega, Daley, McIlrath and Ericsson. He rarely gets 5 on 5 time with Larkin's line, and is always on for the crappy lines, which will make lots of defenders look way worse than they are. Cholo always looks better with Hronek or Green out there with him, and the rare 5 on 5 he gets with Larkin and co. he looks a lot better to me. Not only that but Bowey has been far worse, as he does something dumb on like 60% of his shifts.
Bernier was Bernier last night, as the last 3 goals all should have been stopped. I always feel like he is lucky to make saves and also has a lot of unlucky plays happen, more so than most goalies you see.
Did anyone see Hirose? Yeah me neither!