Canes win! Canes win! Canes win!
Here’s hoping the good Price shows up tonight.
Not enough shots on goal happening, so this will be bad Price, I fear. I do hope he proves me wrong!
And he does…! Shoot out Price is one cocky son of a bitch, though. That glove save off the end of the stick was awesome!
Once again, though, if the rest of the team could figure out how to score…
Habs D gives up an average of 32 shots a game in front of Price, compared to 27 in front of Halak.
I know; small sample caveats apply, and that ridiculous 55 shots against debacle against Nashville skews the numbers a little. Still, even without that one included, they still average giving up 30 per game in front of Price.
: beats head against the wall :
And your point, Mr. Walsh?
For whatever reason, this team just isn’t working well. I like either goalie, but I dislike that Price gets dumped on so much for the rest of the team’s failures. The next few games should be either interesting or frustrating: Washington, Detroit, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Washington again…
Gionta’s out indefinitely with a fractured foot. Source, Facebook. That next stretch of games just got a lot tougher, seeing how all those teams can score, and us, well…not so much.
In other news, Brendan Shanahan has announced his retirement.
Toronto goes back into the basement. I hope Burke finally follows through with his threat of demotions to high paid players to the minors. He’s been saying this from training camp yet hasn’t pulled the trigger to make the wake up call. I wanna see these veterans pay a price for not caring.
Losing Gionta sucks. O’Byrne comes back tomorrow, apparently, so I suppose that is a tiny sliver of good news. Oh, and Laraque.
The Hurricanes are no longer the worst team in the NHL, having beat the Leafs in a shootout.
Can we get a friggin’ rule change on this goal review nonsense. Detroit had another goal disallowed last night. Brad May shoots one in from a bit outside the paint (lest ye think this was a confusing scrum at the net) and it goes in. Three or four seconds later the ref blows the whistle and no goal. See, he meant to blow the whistle before hand so the goal didn’t count.
There was no “no goal” call so the play should’ve been reviewed, and even the review judge seemed to be looking at the refs about the stinker of a call.
I’m not one to start claiming ref bias, but I’m seeing more and more of these calls going against Detroit closing in on once a month. Anybody else noticing this crap going on more commonly with their teams?
It takes a special kind of suck to lose the way the Leafs did tonight. Wow. I was in awe.
As a Leaf hater but a reflexive skeptic I’ve been saying for weeks the Leafs aren’t as bad as people think. Perhaps I was wrong. Maybe they ARE as bad as people think.
That call was absolutely egregious. It’s the worst call I’ve seen since Ottawa was denied a goal in a 1997 playoff series because the replay booth had “technical difficulties”.
Here’s a youtube link for those who haven’t seen the play, The short version is that the Wings shot the puck, it went right into the net and the referee waved the goal off because he blew the whistle … 2 seconds after the puck had entered the net.
I think the Canes just found a little bit of that will to win from last season. Yhey still need to learn to play defense, or they will be going into a shootout with the Leafs for Taylor Hall.
I agree, that was a goal.
Burke is an overrated blowhard who hasn’t proven anything except that he can win a Stanley Cup with Bryan Murray’s team.
Until he stops blustering and actually does something, what you see with this Leaf team is what you’re going to get.
Wow…that was a bad call on that Detroit goal. That was definitely in! I don’t get this “intent to blow the whistle” thing…how can that be accurately determined after the fact? “I intend to blow it now…no, now…no…now! Ok, TWEET!” Is this one of the rules up for discussion? Was it different before, and was the game worse for it?
Well, the “intent to blow the whistle” thing does make sense in certain circumstances. Say an offensive player runs over the goaltender while a teammate is shooting the puck, and the puck enters the net before the referee can blow the whistle to call the penalty. The fact that the puck entered the net before the ref blew the whistle shouldn’t really matter; the goal has to be disallowed.
The problem is that referees are invoking this rule in ridiculous situations where they erroneously intended to blow the whistle but don’t want to admit that they were wrong. The Detroit play is just the worst example of this.
And in this case there was no reason to blow the whistle. There was no problem seeing the puck and IIRC the play was reviewable as there was no “no goal” call made.
I am curious to see if other teams have had this sort of thing happen. A quick consult with some fellow fans led to the conclusion that Detroit has had three goals disallowed this was in this season alone with at least one more being “intent to whistle.” Are the refs this lousy league wide or is it something about Detroit?
Habs beat the Caps 3-2 in Washington, the first regulation loss for the Caps at home this year.
Price has a 1.97 GAA and .941 SVPCT in his last six. Cammy had a goal and an assist, as did Plekanec.
With regards to the officiating, I think it could be just a case of not enough good referees to go around. With the two-ref system, the NHL needs 30 refs on staff for nights when every team is playing. Some of those refs are bound to stink.
“Intent to blow the whistle” is nothing new, though. The first I remember hearing of it was the 1987 Adams Division Finals, between the Habs and Quebec Nordiques. Fifth game, late in the third period with the score tied. Hab player and Nordique player collided near the Montreal net. The Quebec player bumped into the Montreal goalie. Kerry Fraser signaled a penalty and was about to blow the whistle when a Quebec player shot the puck into the net. Fraser waved off the goal (this was four years before video replay), and shortly afterwards a Montreal player scored the game winner. The Habs would later win the series in seven games.
Fraser was dropped from that year’s playoff rotation after that.