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Officials Keep Avs In The Game Against Canucks
by Paul on 03/16/09 at 09:35 AM ET
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from Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province,
After a team gets up two or three goals in this league, there is always a parade to the penalty box on marginal calls in favour of the trailing team. In this case, it was the Colorado Avalanche who were the benefactors.
As soon as the second period began, suddenly the Canucks, who didn’t need to take any penalties, found themselves down and then down two men and the Avalanche were back in the game on a power-play goal.
The Avs were the same struggling team a step behind the play as they were in the first period, but the officiating kept the game close until Vancouver had to play so much defence and worry so much about taking a penalty that they got tentative and Colorado got their legs.
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Tony’s imagining things a bit on this one.
Yes, it does seem like this a bit, but the Canucks also came out flat in the second period, and while the calls may have been questionable (ie, how Tucker went flying and acted hurt after the cross-check from Ohlund), they were technically penalties.
The missed high-stick call and what looked like imaginary call on the Dive with 2:30 left in the came helped bury the Avs, so these things have a tendency to even out in the end.
Posted by Shabbadoo on 03/16/09 at 10:50 AM ET
Tony has always been dreaming up crap, and this is yet another example of why it’s a farce that Skeletor gets paid any amount of money for the words he types.
The Canucks got away with a high-stick near the end of the game and got a PP goal out of it. How did the refs bias go for the trailing team on that one, huh?
Posted by JesGolbez from Burnaby, BC on 03/16/09 at 03:21 PM ET
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Actually, no, there’s not. Sometimes there is, but there’s also sometimes a parade to the penalty box in favour of the winning team. Sometimes there’s a parade to the penalty box in a tie game. Sometimes people are so convinced that something exists that they ignore all the evidence suggesting it doesn’t and focus only on the evidence suggesting it does.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 03/16/09 at 09:57 AM ET