NHL Officials Deserve Coal in their Stockings, Bruins Lose to Habs | Snap Shot 69

0:00 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but all I want for

0:02 Speaker 1: Christmas is officiating that is actually competent. I am sick

0:07 Speaker 1: and tired of the objectively bad decision making and poor

0:11 Speaker 1: work of NHL officials. Referees should never be the reason

0:15 Speaker 1: why a game is decided, and while the Bruins let

0:18 Speaker 1: the game get away from them, it never would have

0:21 Speaker 1: happened if the idiot officials had actually taken the time

0:24 Speaker 1: they are allowed to take and review a goal for

0:28 Speaker 1: quote unquote alleged goaltender interference. When will the league establish

0:33 Speaker 1: a better protocol for how to handle GTI, if not

0:37 Speaker 1: more concretely define it. This is a Bruins tape to

0:41 Speaker 1: tape snapshot.

0:45 Speaker 2: The Bruins played the Montreal Canadians on Tuesday night at

0:49 Speaker 2: the TD Garden, and I thought after the first two

0:53 Speaker 2: periods of that game that the Bruins were going to

0:56 Speaker 2: gift us with a beautiful, shiny object to go into

1:02 Speaker 2: the holiday break. The game started off so well for

1:07 Speaker 2: the first two periods. You had right off the opening

1:12 Speaker 2: drop a fight that involved Tanner Janeau. Then shortly after

1:17 Speaker 2: that you had Nikita Zadorov in a heavyweight bout. The

1:21 Speaker 2: game was two to two. As a matter of fact,

1:26 Speaker 2: the Bruins we thought had taken the lead three to

1:30 Speaker 2: two with less than five seconds left in the second period. However,

1:37 Speaker 2: this was a call that changed the entire trajectory of

1:42 Speaker 2: the game, in that the referee immediately waved off Elias

1:48 Speaker 2: Lindholm's goal, claiming that David Pasternak was interfering with the

1:54 Speaker 2: Canadian goalie. Now, I've heard a couple of different spins

1:59 Speaker 2: and rapes for why the Bruins didn't challenge that goal,

2:04 Speaker 2: one of which is the rationale that the trend in

2:08 Speaker 2: the league is that they are allowing whatever called the

2:12 Speaker 2: official makes to stand, whether the official waves it off

2:17 Speaker 2: or calls it a goal, to which I say, then

2:20 Speaker 2: why the hell are we even bothering with reviews and

2:25 Speaker 2: coaches challenges. Then just eradicate it all together and spare

2:31 Speaker 2: us all the angst and aggravation and the waste of

2:35 Speaker 2: time if you're not going to actually review the call.

2:39 Speaker 2: And why the Bruins' coaching staff didn't take the shot

2:43 Speaker 2: at that time to challenge it is beyond me. Maybe

2:47 Speaker 2: they were doing online shopping at the time, I don't know,

2:51 Speaker 2: but me I might have given it a shot. I'd

2:54 Speaker 2: rather go into the start of the period with a

2:58 Speaker 2: power play rather than have I've wasted the challenge such

3:02 Speaker 2: as the Bruins did on a goal that was clearly

3:06 Speaker 2: a goal. So bad night all the way around. The

3:11 Speaker 2: Bruins totally fell apart in the third period of the

3:14 Speaker 2: game after that, and Montreal scored four unanswered goal. Then

3:20 Speaker 2: we fast forward to the post game and we are

3:24 Speaker 2: listening to Marco Sturm make excuses for the fact that

3:29 Speaker 2: the team is mentally fatigued, mentally tired. David Pasternach made

3:35 Speaker 2: similar comments to which I say, boo freaking who You're

3:40 Speaker 2: all aware of what your schedule is. This was a

3:45 Speaker 2: huge stand on home ice and you let opponents come

3:51 Speaker 2: in and kick your asses on your home ice from

3:55 Speaker 2: one end to the other. This team needs to do

3:59 Speaker 2: some heavy setting during the holiday break. And one thing

4:03 Speaker 2: that needs to change to start after the holiday break

4:06 Speaker 2: is the stupid penalties. Alex Steves swinging his stick like

4:13 Speaker 2: it's a flipping golf club on the ice, Okay, sticks

4:16 Speaker 2: between the legs, the tripping calls. It is simply unacceptable

4:22 Speaker 2: any longer, and it needs to be fixed.

4:26 Speaker 1: This game was the case of two things can be

4:29 Speaker 1: true at once. The Boston Bruins let the wheels fall

4:32 Speaker 1: off in an embarrassing display of ineptitude in the third

4:35 Speaker 1: period against the Halves, but I am thoroughly convinced that

4:39 Speaker 1: the immediate no call goal due to quote unquote goaltender

4:44 Speaker 1: interference in the second period was the tipping point for

4:47 Speaker 1: this team. In an era where there is near constant

4:51 Speaker 1: criticism of the league and officials about the definition of

4:55 Speaker 1: an interpretation of GTI, there must be a better protocol

5:00 Speaker 1: for review. I understand that there is a degree of

5:04 Speaker 1: individual interpretation, and yes, we don't want to go down

5:08 Speaker 1: the path of pausing the game to review every little thing,

5:12 Speaker 1: but this is one of those things that has been

5:16 Speaker 1: such a hot topic of debate. The league has forced

5:20 Speaker 1: itself into a corner here. They created a protocol to

5:23 Speaker 1: give officials the ability to review a penalty by initially

5:27 Speaker 1: calling for a five minute major in order to pause

5:30 Speaker 1: play and review the film. This gives officials the time

5:35 Speaker 1: and space to make a better decision about what has

5:37 Speaker 1: actually happened on the ice. So why can't the league

5:41 Speaker 1: establish some kind of process like this for GTI? The

5:46 Speaker 1: game is fast, and it is not always possible to

5:49 Speaker 1: make the right call right away, so why stop goal scoring.

5:55 Speaker 1: The default should be to allow goals and then review

5:59 Speaker 1: right away if there's any question by the officials, and

6:03 Speaker 1: for every GTI called, the league should be required to

6:07 Speaker 1: release a detailed explainer for that call. No excuses. This

6:13 Speaker 1: is bullshit, especially since the league is shoving sports gambling

6:17 Speaker 1: down our throats. Anyways, the Bruins hit the road for

6:22 Speaker 1: a stretch right after the holiday break. I'm too mad

6:25 Speaker 1: to talk about it still, so Merry Christmas. You have

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