Devils @ Leafs - Jan. 12th, 7:00pm - LeafsTV, SN 590

[Derk]

Wow, the Devils sure are careless with their sticks - that's the fourth high sticking penalty of the period!

 

[L K]

Bernier knocked down on the Devils PP by a Devils player...no call.

Much worse too.

The lack of consistency is a joke. Watching NFL officiating is so much better. They're far from perfect, but they're fairly consistent.

I'm not sure that's true.  They have a slower game (relative to the NHL) and they seem to routinely have botched calls.  The NFL adopted far more extensive replay than the other leagues because of the gambling implications of the blown calls the refs were making.

 

[2badknees]

Come on Kadri, skate like you give a damn.

 

[BlueWhiteBlood]

Bernier knocked down on the Devils PP by a Devils player...no call.

Much worse too.

The officiating has been consistently horrendous this season.

 

[Bonsixx]

Bernier knocked down on the Devils PP by a Devils player...no call.

Much worse too.

The lack of consistency is a joke. Watching NFL officiating is so much better. They're far from perfect, but they're fairly consistent.

I'm not sure that's true.  They have a slower game (relative to the NHL) and they seem to routinely have botched calls.

I said they were far from perfect, it's human error after all. But for the most part, the same things are called habitually and they're called regardless of the "importance" of the situation.

 

[jjjoejr]

The Leafs make a lot of low percentage plays on the PP (or in general). Whipping passes to each other a kilometre apart isn't likely to work. They just don't seem to know how to work as a unit.

 

[Stickytape]

The Leafs make a lot of low percentage plays on the PP (or in general). Whipping passes to each other a kilometre apart isn't likely to work. They just don't seem to know how to work as a unit.

I don't get the sense that they practice the PP much, either.  And given how ugly their game is in other, more important areas, I don't blame them.

 

[bustaheims]

The Leafs make a lot of low percentage plays on the PP (or in general). Whipping passes to each other a kilometre apart isn't likely to work. They just don't seem to know how to work as a unit.

Some of that comes back to the fact that they have the defence set up in a way that eliminates the blue line one-timer. Basically, the only plays they have available to them are throwing it around the outside until a shooting lane opens or trying to go cross crease for a one timer.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

I find the Kessel/JvR/Bozak powerplay unit works well together and opens up different options either down low to JVR, from the hashmarks with Kessel, or from the point with Franson and Phaneuf.....I think it all starts with JvR going to the net

The other line has no one going to the net. They are basically on the perimeter the entire time and it's quite easy to play the box and force them to make an errant pass.

 

[2badknees]

The jersey feed is shows a lot of McD's chicken wing ads.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I still can't get over that goalie interference call and not think of Malkin's goal against the Leafs where he pushed Bernier into the net.

 

[2badknees]

Nice move there by clarkson! Too bad he couldn't finish.

 

[Sanecow]

Did not know Clarkson was capable of sexy hockey.

 

[Bill_Berg]

They look like they're fighting harder to win little battles tonight.

 

[Sanecow]

Maybe I'm being sensitive but are we getting hammered by the officials?!?

 

[2badknees]

Maybe I'm being sensitive but are we getting hammered by the officials?!?

Are you referring to a minute ago when Kulemin was crosschecked to the ice nowhere near the puck?

 

[Arn]

Another shoot out tonight?

 

[Bonsixx]

Can't we just skip ahead to Bozak winning the game in the shootout already?

 

[2badknees]

I rag on him a lot, but Gardiner has had a great game tonight.

 

[Bill_Berg]

'Whistled it wide' is stuck in my head like a bad song.