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Dude, ice is slippery.

Also, trying to hold onto your stick with hockey gloves on is almost impossible. If any of you had ever played hockey, you'd know that FFS.

I get what you mean, but intentional or not it still has to be called. Just like a high stick is called time and again when sticks get caught up in scrums along the boards and flicks out. Probably was accidental, but still happened and should have been called.

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Dude, ice is slippery.

Also, trying to hold onto your stick with hockey gloves on is almost impossible. If any of you had ever played hockey, you'd know that FFS.

1) Doesn't really matter if it was intentional or not, it's like highsticking, you still have to make the call.

2) I have been playing hockey for 28 years now and I can honestly say that my stick has almost never left my hand, other than when someone slashes it out of my hand (which hasn't happend much either), I can't even remember a single instance where I lost my stick. I'm sure it's happened several times, but obviously not that often. So, holding on to your stick with hockey glove is actually pretty easy. If you find it almost impossible, maybe you should consider changing your gloves, or maybe the way you tape your stick needs to change.

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Nobody saw the sarcasm in SeeinRed? :rolleyes:

As for the call, yikes. That's about as obvious as it gets. But then again, maybe its justice for the Stars benefiting from Brad May's no goal last season.

:lol:, Thank you.

I almost put some sort of smiley in there, but I figured what I said was stupid enough to be clear I wasn't serious.

Sorry :ph34r:

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I can typically deal with or tolerate somebody accidentally high sticking somebody 100 feet away from the game flow or whatever and the referee not seeing it, having to blow the whistle for a play dead because you can't see the puck anymore and then it crosses the goal line 2 seconds after the whistle we've seen that happen plenty in the past, etc. Can't have eyes in the back of your head or X-ray vision.

To not call something so blatant and on purpose though is absurd. I'm not going to call favortism towards certain players or teams like some do on here (though I get that angle/understand it), but it's just another example how horrible the consistency is with officating in this league.

I don't like Coach Crawford that much but I'd be going apes**t like him as well if that happened to my team.

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I wonder if the ref yelled for Seabrook to "don't throw your stick!"

Seems like the more popular bandwagon teams are allowed to get warnings first (i.e. Pittsburgh's 6 on the ice)

Now you're just mocking me. :lol:

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Guest Howard He Do It?!

1. Pittsburgh

2. Chicago

Any questions?

What a horrific no call. I can see a no call when the infraction is borderline but when something like this is not called it is just pure incompetence. You expect me to believe that neither ref was watching the puck carrier? Officiating across all sports is at an all-time low.

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1. Pittsburgh

2. Chicago

Any questions?

What a horrific no call. I can see a no call when the infraction is borderline but when something like this is not called it is just pure incompetence. You expect me to believe that neither ref was watching the puck carrier? Officiating across all sports is at an all-time low.

What's even worse is that I'm pretty sure the linesmen can make that call too after the play ends.

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Did anyone else see the ref hand Raycroft his stick back DURING PLAY? What kinda BS was that?

And I agree, it should have been called, but oh well, I am sure the Hawks will get a bad call/no call against them soon, these things tend to even out throughout the course of a season. The officiating has just been bad for awile now.

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Did anyone else see the ref hand Raycroft his stick back DURING PLAY? What kinda BS was that?

That's equally ridiculous. What is going on with the officials this season? I mean, they've always been bad, but they're being extraordinarily bad this season. Maybe they all now realize that after the Campbell e-mails, there truly is no accountability in the NHL and as such, they can be as s***ty as they want as long as they don't piss off "Colie".

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that stick needs to be suspended

6 games minimum

I think it should be put to death (broken) and buried. The ground under which it is buried should then be salted, so that nothing may ever grow there again (barring soil transplant).

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I'd be surprised to see Babcock show that kind of emotion against the officials. He mostly has a "Well it was unfortunate for us but that's the way it goes" attitude when Detroit gets boned with a no-goal call. I realize he is being professional about it, but I just wish that he'd get visibly angered about it every once in a while like the fans do.

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I'd be surprised to see Babcock show that kind of emotion against the officials. He mostly has a "Well it was unfortunate for us but that's the way it goes" attitude when Detroit gets boned with a no-goal call. I realize he is being professional about it, but I just wish that he'd get visibly angered about it every once in a while like the fans do.

I like that Babcock is generally the voice of reason. In those situations, the coach is (at least temporarily) the face of the organization and I feel that it says a lot about a club when their coach can retain his professionalism.

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I'd be surprised to see Babcock show that kind of emotion against the officials. He mostly has a "Well it was unfortunate for us but that's the way it goes" attitude when Detroit gets boned with a no-goal call. I realize he is being professional about it, but I just wish that he'd get visibly angered about it every once in a while like the fans do.

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