I watched this game last night and I think the ref Brad Watson really screwed this call up. Just for the record I have no dog in this fight I am not a Redwings or a Ducks fan but as a hockey fan I want to see the correct calls made. I think the Redwings do have a beef with the league officials. I know the ref lost site of the puck and was in the process of blowing his wistle but a bad call cost a team a goal and it makes the NHL look bad.
Scott Niedermayer's power-play goal 8:16 into the second period proved to be the winner as the Ducks took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.
"He is a difference maker," Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood said. "If we're not watching him, he is going to burn us like he has in past series."
Detroit's Marian Hossa looked to have forced overtime with 65 seconds remaining, but a hasty whistle negated the tying goal.
"We were lucky there," Ducks netminder Jonas Hiller said. "You're always going to get good calls or bad calls against you, but I always say, 'To be lucky you have to fight for it' and tonight we fought for 60 minutes — that is why we deserved to be lucky at the end."
Parked behind the net, Pavel Datsyuk poked the puck into the crease, where it sat next to Hiller's right pad until Hossa swept it into the open net.
But referee Brad Watson ruled that he lost sight of the puck and blew the play dead.
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I know my wife blames me for being hard of hearing, but didn't the puck cross the line prior to the whistle??
ReplyDeleteWhy can't that be replayed, the whistle per the replay was not blown until the puck was in the net.
The argument was the ref was in the process of blowing his whistle and even though the whistle didn't sound the intent to blow the whistle was there. I can remember that happening during a WCHA hockey game.
ReplyDeleteIf he was in the process of blowing his whistle before the puck was in the net, or even in the open, he wasn't even giving the puck a chance to be covered before blowing it. After watching the a few times, the puck was moving at quite a high rate across the crease and was visible behind Hiller's leg. It really makes me wonder, because half the time officials won't blow the whistle until a goalie is being sat on by two guys and hacked apart by the other three, but then times like these, the puck could have bounced to the other end of the ice and they're blowing the whistle becasue it touched them and wasn't visible for half a millisecond. Regardless, Detroit should never have gotten themselves into that position in the first place, but it really sucks to have something called off on a play that was clearly effed up and 'isn't reviewable'
ReplyDeleteYeah the ref blew the call plain and simple. I thought that last night as well.
ReplyDeleteblatent mistake by the ref there. Seeing something like that actually pisses me off, even though I don't really care about either team. The integrity of the game was compromised. The entire playoffs may be shaken up due to one bad call.
ReplyDeleteThis actually happens quite often, but since it's the second round of the playoffs, and it would have been for the tying goal with 1:09 left, it is dramatically scrutinized on a much bigger table. Anaheim has to be the best #8 seed I've seen since watching hockey for 10 years. Man, that top line of Perry, Getzlaf, and Ryan is so good.
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