OT: Wings-Yotes
that Holmstrom gets impaled on a hockey stick and gets penalized for interference?
talking impaled, like the stick goes in his back and comes out his front, about 1. If you mean just like speared with it, 0.75.
Because it happened in every game of the play-offs I've watched so far (most blatantly against Lidstrom), what are the odds the refs miss (or "miss", depending on how much of a conspiracy theorist you are) at least one obvious high-stick? Did I miss something and the NHL changed that rule, or was something weird just up? Not noticing a high-stick every now and then happens, especially when it's behind the play like with Lidstrom, but there were a decent amount that were missed throughout the first games and that's a problem.
The no-call on Lidstrom was really bad and so was the play last night where Kopitar slid his stick right up through Henrik Sedin's visor and left it there. The worst was the no-call in OT of the Montreal-Washington game last night that would have been a penalty shot in the regular season for sure. The NHL is the most poorly officiated league and they rarely squander a chance to demonstrate it.
calls all over the place (OT Caps-Habs was definitely the worst), I was just focusing on the high sticks, because I saw a lot more of them that weren't called than I normally see in the regular season and I'm honestly wondering a little whether the league told officials, across the board, that they should cut back on them a little. Because normally they call high sticks pretty well, it's an easy call to make and a hard one to disagree with. And the calls weren't made, several times, by several different officiating crews. Admittedly it's only seven games and we'll see more tonight whether that was a fluke (most likely), it's just a pattern I noticed and that concerned me, watching the various game 1's.