When will the NHL's officials stop embarrassing themselves?

[miller76 463]

A little over one year ago I was involved in a devistating motorcycle accident that nearly ended my life. I knew that I would spend quite a lengthy time in front of the TV recuperating. My wife knowing that I would go nuts laying around, got me the ultimate gift of "NHL Center Ice". Sitting around doing nothing but watching every Redwing game and as many other league games as possible. I have never been able to watch hockey so closely, and keep up with the stats and everything .WHAT A JOKE THE NHL OFFICIATING IS! Are you kidding me? I am not going to go off on a rant here about every hooking call, but at least institute some type of system of review when there is a possible goal scored, or some game altering action. I am really proud of the NHL at totally embarrassing themselves on national television (NBC) last Saturday when the Redwings played the Ducks. I know the goal was immediatly waved off, but there needs to be some type of automatic review when the game is either in a certain time frame of the third period or overtime. The NFL has the review option that lets the lets the coaches from each team have three red bean bags they can throw on the field when they feel there was a bad call. I know there are the skeptics that says it slows the game down and all that crap, and it would, but at least put something rational in, that makes these officials liable. But I would prefer to at least have a fair outcome. I hate losing to the Ducks more than any other team out there, not to mention I live in their market. But I would rather lose cause we sucked that day, not because the ref is tired of the Wings winning everything. Bettman is a disgrace and so are his policies. What do we do to get our pastime back from this ****** bag?

Edited February 17, 2008 by miller76

[Statts 4]

A little over one year ago I was involved in a devistating motorcycle accident that nearly ended my life. I knew that I would spend quite a lengthy time in front of the TV recuperating. My wife knowing that I would go nuts laying around, got me the ultimate gift of "NHL Center Ice". Sitting around doing nothing but watching every Redwing game and as many other league games as possible. I have never been able to watch hockey so closely, and keep up with the stats and everything .WHAT A JOKE THE NHL OFFICIATING IS! Are you kidding me? I am not going to go off on a rant here about every hooking call, but at least institute some type of system of review when there is a possible goal scored, or some game altering action. I am really proud of the NHL at totally embarrassing themselves on national television (NBC) last Saturday when the Redwings played the Ducks. I know the goal was immediatly waved off, but there needs to be some type of automatic review when the game is either in a certain time frame of the third period or overtime. The NFL has the review option that lets the lets the coaches from each team have three red bean bags they can throw on the field when they feel there was a bad call. I know there are the skeptics that says it slows the game down and all that crap, and it would, but at least put something rational in, that makes these officials liable. But I would prefer to at least have a fair outcome. I hate losing to the Ducks more than any other team out there, not to mention I live in their market. But I would rather lose cause we sucked that day, not because the ref is tired of the Wings winning everything. Bettman is a disgrace and so are his policies. What do we do to get our pastime back from this ****** bag?[b][/b]

A taser, duct tape, Ron Jeremy, Marvin Gaye music and a bean bag chair.

Seriously thought. As long as the owners are making money.

Edited February 17, 2008 by Statts

[jim3033 1]

A little over one year ago I was involved in a devistating motorcycle accident that nearly ended my life. I knew that I would spend quite a lengthy time in front of the TV recuperating. My wife knowing that I would go nuts laying around, got me the ultimate gift of "NHL Center Ice". Sitting around doing nothing but watching every Redwing game and as many other league games as possible. I have never been able to watch hockey so closely, and keep up with the stats and everything .WHAT A JOKE THE NHL OFFICIATING IS! Are you kidding me? I am not going to go off on a rant here about every hooking call, but at least institute some type of system of review when there is a possible goal scored, or some game altering action. I am really proud of the NHL at totally embarrassing themselves on national television (NBC) last Saturday when the Redwings played the Ducks. I know the goal was immediatly waved off, but there needs to be some type of automatic review when the game is either in a certain time frame of the third period or overtime. The NFL has the review option that lets the lets the coaches from each team have three red bean bags they can throw on the field when they feel there was a bad call. I know there are the skeptics that says it slows the game down and all that crap, and it would, but at least put something rational in, that makes these officials liable. But I would prefer to at least have a fair outcome. I hate losing to the Ducks more than any other team out there, not to mention I live in their market. But I would rather lose cause we sucked that day, not because the ref is tired of the Wings winning everything. Bettman is a disgrace and so are his policies. What do we do to get our pastime back from this ****** bag?

I agree. I think that call in Anaheim was "one to put in the books." Announcers and the like just brush it off. There was a bad call in a Phoenix-Dallas game that put Dallas on a 5 on 3 with 2 minutes left in a 1-1 tie and they got a goal. It's been happening in the playoffs more too. I think we're starting to see it become a strategy where players dive more.

You can get as many people to send in complaints about it as you can. Bettman has a live talk hour where you can call in on thursdays from 4-5PM ET. IMO Bettman isn't the man to be managing the NHL but he does make it look like he listens to the fans.

Wings have been floundering ever since that bad call. And that wasn't the only bad call in the game either.

[Guest octopusdank]

A little over one year ago I was involved in a devistating motorcycle accident that nearly ended my life. I knew that I would spend quite a lengthy time in front of the TV recuperating. My wife knowing that I would go nuts laying around, got me the ultimate gift of "NHL Center Ice". Sitting around doing nothing but watching every Redwing game and as many other league games as possible. I have never been able to watch hockey so closely, and keep up with the stats and everything .WHAT A JOKE THE NHL OFFICIATING IS! Are you kidding me? I am not going to go off on a rant here about every hooking call, but at least institute some type of system of review when there is a possible goal scored, or some game altering action. I am really proud of the NHL at totally embarrassing themselves on national television (NBC) last Saturday when the Redwings played the Ducks. I know the goal was immediatly waved off, but there needs to be some type of automatic review when the game is either in a certain time frame of the third period or overtime. The NFL has the review option that lets the lets the coaches from each team have three red bean bags they can throw on the field when they feel there was a bad call. I know there are the skeptics that says it slows the game down and all that crap, and it would, but at least put something rational in, that makes these officials liable. But I would prefer to at least have a fair outcome. I hate losing to the Ducks more than any other team out there, not to mention I live in their market. But I would rather lose cause we sucked that day, not because the ref is tired of the Wings winning everything. Bettman is a disgrace and so are his policies. What do we do to get our pastime back from this ****** bag?

[dallas27 7]

They will stop embarrassing themselves when they appoint Mickey as the boss of all the refs