NHL Officiating - I've pretty much lost faith in any consistent co

[Nev 1,085]

The joke of a call on the Bertuzzi penalty finally did it for me. I have lost all faith in them showing some shred of competence in a consistent manner.

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EDIT: And if you thought the Bertuzzi call was legit, that's cool, agree to disagree on that one (a term which I hate ), but overall the quality of the body of work in officiating this year has been awful.

Todd Bertuzzi would disagree with you

Stupid, stupid penalty by me. Just careless with my stick at the wrong time,

[GMRwings1983 8,804]

I agree. I'll be the first to say hockey was better before the lockout.

Edit: The penalty calls in the last 5 minutes that are in favor of teams down a goal, drives me insane! It seems like it's been happening more often since the lockout too.

I wouldn't be surprised if the refs were told by the league after the lockout to call more penalties to increase scoring.

I agree, and it's what pisses me off more than anything.

You pretty much know the refs are going to call a penalty late in a game to help a team get back in it. Hell, they gave us a powerplay yesterday late in the game which I felt was coming.

It shouldn't be that predictable for fans to know when penalties are going to be called and against which team.

[egroen 384]

Blame the NHLPA for diving rarely ever being called nowadays.

A couple years ago, officials were really trying to hammer down on it - they were reviewing games and publicly fining players ($2,500) for diving, but the NHLPA had a huge cow over that and they no longer do it.

In my opinion, that largely led to the Burrow/Auger situation.

[Rivalred 630]

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it

[beepbeep 3]

The joke of a call on the Bertuzzi penalty finally did it for me. I have lost all faith in them showing some shred of competence in a consistent manner.

I often gave them the benefit of the doubt a few seasons ago when Holmstrom got called for ridiciulous phantom interefernce calls. Slowly and surely the quality of officials on the product has just turned into an absolute joke this season, with intent to blow the whistles too frequent waving off goals, phantom interference goals, and crap calls like the one on Bertuzzi tonight. And this is just watching my favorite team, I wander how bad it is league wide.

I'm not going to say that officials or Bettman or NHL higher ups have it in for the Wings or want them to fail because I don't do conspiracy theories or stuff like that, but the officiating overall this year has been terrible.

I can handle losing, I can get over a loss or even my favorite teams playing like dirt some games, because losses are a part of life. I rarely take wins/losses too seriously on the emotional scale.

What absolutely infurates me though is referees playing a much bigger role in determining an outcome of a game than is necessary, in any sport. It happened tonight with the crap Bertuzzi call, it happened in the recent Dallas game, it happened in another game against Dallas, a game on the road against Colorado with an intent to blow the whiste call, etc.

EDIT: And if you thought the Bertuzzi call was legit, that's cool, agree to disagree on that one (a term which I hate ), but overall the quality of the body of work in officiating this year has been awful.

Whasa matter mit you? Dey be consistently BAD!

[eva unit zero 271]

Bertuzzi's penalty and Lidstrom's penalty were both legit penalties. Yes, the Cap players involved were big name players. That doesn't mean the penalty was called for that reason. It ALSO doesn't mean the Wings can do more to restrict that player from creating offense. While I don't recall exactly what the calls were, both should have been penalties.

[TheDetroitRedWings 286]

The NHL needs to start doing what the NFL has begun to do. If the refs are showing that they are incompetent, then they aren't used for any playoff games. IMO it should even go a step further and they should start firing certan refs. That ref that has beef with Alex Burrows needs to lose his job.

[titanium2 867]

What's the punishment for a player instigating a fight with an "incompetent" official?

Probably a lawsuit. But I kind of wish someone would take the punishment with the attitude of, " Worth it."