my hockey league’s playoffs were today. In the 2nd peroid of our game, we were behind 2-3. We were crashing the net and the puck deflected in the air. our foward ala sammy sosa swatted the puck out of the air with his stick (below the crossbar, no high stick) into the net. It was a beautiful play, even from where I stood at the other end of the ice as a goalie. The ref disallowed the goal! in a playoff game the ref disallowed a perfect goal! I havent seen such a great goal in a long time. gurrr!!!
We lost the game 4-2. the other team got an empty net goal at the end of the 3rd…
I used to play in a league where the referees were actually selected from players from various teams within the league.
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These guys would officiate games when their particular teams weren’t playing.
We were new to the league, playing in our first season there. One HotShot player/ref, who was well acquainted with players on the other team, kept calling penalties in favor of the other guys. We lost.
When our team first had the opportunity to play against this guy’s team (he was the goalie), HotShot taunted us, betting against our Captain that he wouldn’t be able to score against him.
We rang up goals with pneumatic regularity, piling up pucks behind him like we were shovelling coal. This effectively shut up the jerk as he was totally embarassed.
Guess what happened the next time HotShot officiated a game we played in?