Leafs can’t catch a fucking break. I’d rant, but I’m tired. >.<

Arrrrgh!!!

I don’t know what pisses me off more about the finish to this game; the fact that the Leafs played poorly enough to put themselves in a position to lose the game on a bad call, or the fact that it actually happened at least twice in this game (the “high stick” call on White and the “I don’t want that to be a goal” call in OT). Actually, we have another candidate for the focus of my supreme rage: the fact that NOBODY on the Leafs seemed to even give a shit about any of these things happening (with the possible exception of White himself). Leadership fail.

Oh, and brutal effort by both Stempy and Philthy Phil in the shootout.

Oh, you blew it alright. Let me teeeell you.

I swear these refs must have attended the Kerry Fraser Screw The Leafs referee camp. How could they miss those two calls?

Hagman not moving even though his presence made it impossible for Legace to make a save (I know he was thrown into him by Cole, but he still didn’t try and move until the puck was in the net) might have had something to do with it, too. That’s the best explanation I could come up with for the no goal call. Or the refs blew it. Of course, no one on Toronto complained or lobbied for the play to be reviewed. In fact, no one even celebrated as if a goal had occured.

In fact, it might have crossed the line off Hagman’s glove, so I’m not sure that would’ve counted. Strange play all around.

always good to see the officials having an impact in the game it really adds to my torturing my neighbours cat while crying tears of frustration post game celebration.. my favorite part was when they ref blew his whistle when he saw the puck go in and disallowed the goal.. i cannot count how many times i have been outraged by an opposing forward sitting on a leafs goalie while the puck gets shoveled in only to hear “well thats a hockey goal, that is the gritty dirty play that wins games”.. tonight: the whistle had not blown, i have seen goals reviewed with the purpose of listening to see if a whistle had been blown in order to determine whether goals will count.. they are not listening for the ref’s decision they listen for the whistle and it pisses me off to no fucking end.. sorry Billy looks like Mittens ran away

also has anyone else noticed linesmen getting hit with pucks more frequently than ever in the past.. are officials getting careless, or are players aiming for them?

is to cover in case the ref has the whistle knocked out his hand, or is otherwise tied up, and takes a while before he can physically blow it, you can say "well look, this is when he WOULD have done it, it’s what he intended, even if he physically couldn’t act quickly enough.

Of course, depending on refs intentions assumes that their intentions are reasonable… which most of us used to do.

The ref already had the whistle in his mouth. How long does it take for the message to go from his brain to his stupid lying lips?

I dont care what the NHL says that was a goal. From what I can see, the puck is loose right in front of legace, then the carolina player tries to tuck into Legaces pads only to shovel it into his own net. How the fuck is that not a goal?!

The Leafs should have won obviously, and we could keep spewing out excuses because there are a couple of them from tonights game, but the bottom line is that these guys blew 3 good leads and deserve to be where they are in the standings.

I dont even know how to feel about this team anymore….. jesus fuck this is going to be a long season

I’d be more upset about this non call if the Leafs weren’t terrible.

WOW, puck daddy mentions this blog post and the comments there are just atrocious. Everyone keeps saying the legace had the puck frozen and hagman tackled legace. Just brutal.

The puck was at least a foot in front of legce, in plain view for a few seconds before being shoveled in by his own player and Hagman was absolutley steamrolled into the net.

Just brutal how bias against the leafs people are

The ref just misses it. He loses sight of the puck but does’t realize it’s already in the net. Hagman doesn’t realize it either. Seems like everyone didn’t realize where the puck was (except maybe Mitchell, who points at it) until after the whistle and since no one knew how it got there, they just shrugged their shoulders and carried on.

I was amazed that Cole didn’t get a penalty on the play. It was basically the exact same thing Blake did when he injured Vesa. Blake was given 2 minutes for cross-checking. The refs could have saved face by giving Cole a penalty and saying it was no goal because of incidental interefence with the goaltender.

I agree with jrwendalman’s comment that it’s equally frustrating to see the lack of passionate response in these situations from the Leafs. Seems like no one wants to stand out. Maybe Wilson’s program of destroying their sense of entitlement went too far and no one on the team thinks they deserve to win, they just want to look like they’re trying to.