Refs are all commie assholes. Hockey was my favorite but was the first sport I quit watching way back when the Stars beat the Sabres in the Cup on a bullshit goal that should have been waved off. Refs were clearly on the Star's side the entire series.
Refs in hockey are a hated bunch, I'll grant you that.
And I was a huge Brett Hull fan from St. Louis, but that Cup winner in '99 by him was BS. All season long they'd called it tight: If you were in the crease, no goal. Period. Then they said well Hull was in the crease legally with the puck, then stood there while stickhandling the puck out of the crease and right back in, so we'll let it slide. Except they never called it that way during the regular season. Remember how the Sabres refused for a long stretch of minutes to even come on the ice for the Cup celebration? Crazy! I thought Hasek was finally going to get him a Cup that year. He played insane.
Glad they changed the rule for the 1999-2000 season to what it is now: I believe the exact wording in the rulebook is "The crease basically means jack shit in 99% of all situations."
It's just lines painted on the ice to help the goalie orient himself to the cage.
To be fair, ice hockey is top tier entertainment for lots of us
The speed, neuromuscular coordination and skill level of pro players are breathtaking
Refs are all commie assholes. Hockey was my favorite but was the first sport I quit watching way back when the Stars beat the Sabres in the Cup on a bullshit goal that should have been waved off. Refs were clearly on the Star's side the entire series.
Refs in hockey are a hated bunch, I'll grant you that.
And I was a huge Brett Hull fan from St. Louis, but that Cup winner in '99 by him was BS. All season long they'd called it tight: If you were in the crease, no goal. Period. Then they said well Hull was in the crease legally with the puck, then stood there while stickhandling the puck out of the crease and right back in, so we'll let it slide. Except they never called it that way during the regular season. Remember how the Sabres refused for a long stretch of minutes to even come on the ice for the Cup celebration? Crazy! I thought Hasek was finally going to get him a Cup that year. He played insane.
Glad they changed the rule for the 1999-2000 season to what it is now: I believe the exact wording in the rulebook is "The crease basically means jack shit in 99% of all situations."
It's just lines painted on the ice to help the goalie orient himself to the cage.
exactly... so the refs can call it on one team and not another... pisses me off.
call it all the time or never.