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Billy Antrim said:
Long time Cakgary Flames fan here (30+ years).

The officials awarding power plays is the closest thing you get to a make-up call in hockey. The refs realized their mistake, awarded the Preds a bunch of power plays, including a ridiculous 5 on 3 that should have resulted in a goal. But no, the Preds passed the puck around & around while I was screaming at the TV to shoot the damn puck. Abysmal.

On the flip side, they called no penalties against the Preds IIRC. For example, interference should have been called against Pekka on the wraparound goal attempt by one of the Pittsburgh players (I forget his name). No call.

It's how the game is played & officiated. What else could the refs have done?
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Oh, you know... not blow the whistle from the corner where he was in terrible position because he "lost sight of the puck."

Been watching Hockey for 20+ years and played for over 15+, that was a blunder by that ref. He got caught up in the momentum and blew the whistle, way, way to early.
 
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Funny because 90% of us hated the hire
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Not to toot my own horn, but I was one who said that I thought it would be a good hire. I remember seeing him coach against us in the N Texas game and the announcers made a comment about how the week he took over, CMC cane out to practice in pads and a helmet to fire his guys up. Sounds like an energetic creative motivator to me. I am glad he seems to be working out, and I hope our QBs benefit from having a real QB coach.
 
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Was just listening to sportstalk here in Nashville and they had on the former Head of officiating for the NHL on the program. He had two main points:

1. The ref got caught up in the moment. He said that he was in terrible position to blow the whistle and with barely any traffic in front of the net, that is not a play where you blow the whistle quickly. He should have immediately took off for the back of the net and blown the whistle when he got there.

2. The play wasn't reviewable because the puck wasn't moving towards the net when the whistle was blown. Basically, if Sissons had hit the puck before the whistle and the puck was moving towards the net when it was blown dead then they could have called it continuation and been able to review it and reverse it.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
most toxic fanbase/alumni in the country....by a mile. It ridiculous.
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Ridiculous and sad.

One of the worst parts is the way they allow themselves to be absolutely used and abused. Our twitter morons constantly provided meat for clickbait articles and negative recruiting (please don't tell me it doesn't happen). Writers know they can always get loads of cheap clicks by finding one of the grumpy alums like Crompton and tossing out a cheap story.

Then you have guys like Treece who absolutely swallowed the bait that Franklin threw out like a damn catfish.

Ridiculous is the right word.
 
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gc49ervol said:
I'm curious if you would be ok with idiot fans threatening you and your family or wishing you and they would die in ACSR crash? I get these guys are the fringe but that should never happen.
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That happens at literally every single school where the qb doesn't do well.
 
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Billy Antrim said:
Long time Cakgary Flames fan here (30+ years).

The officials awarding power plays is the closest thing you get to a make-up call in hockey. The refs realized their mistake, awarded the Preds a bunch of power plays, including a ridiculous 5 on 3 that should have resulted in a goal. But no, the Preds passed the puck around & around while I was screaming at the TV to shoot the damn puck. Abysmal.

On the flip side, they called no penalties against the Preds IIRC. For example, interference should have been called against Pekka on the wraparound goal attempt by one of the Pittsburgh players (I forget his name). No call.

It's how the game is played & officiated. What else could the refs have done?
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I agree, we got all the calls after that, but waving off a goal is a huge momentum change, and even make up calls don't offset that. Playing with the lead would have been huge, and replay should have given us the lead.

That said, preds have to own the fact that they didn't rise up after getting robbed when refs tried to give them a goal. Our power play was just abysmal. So refs did hose us, and I think we win if they'd let us keep the goal, but 1) we'd probably get wrecked in Pitt and 2) gotta be tough enough to recover from a horrendous call, especially when refs did a lot to make up for it.
 
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Big Gucci Sosa said:
Funny because 90% of us hated the hire
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I didn't hate it, but I'll admit that I was a bit skeptical. The weird thing is that if you were to flip the front half of his career and the back half of his career, us getting him as QB coach might have been the talk of the college football offseason.
 
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😂 Channel 5 in Nashville interviewed a random Preds fan last night. Look who it was
 

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Nash_Vol97 said:
Oh, you know... not blow the whistle from the corner where he was in terrible position because he "lost sight of the puck."

Been watching Hockey for 20+ years and played for over 15+, that was a blunder by that ref. He got caught up in the momentum and blew the whistle, way, way to early.
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OK, I get what you're saying, but what I meant was, once the whistle has blown, it's water under the bridge. The Preds needed to take advantage of the PP chances they were given and they didn't.
 
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Billy Antrim said:
OK, I get what you're saying, but what I meant was, once the whistle has blown, it's water under the bridge. The Preds needed to take advantage of the PP chances they were given and they didn't.
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Yeah, I agree with that. Was just poking some fun at the last sentence of your original post. Preds had plenty of chances. Gotta credit that Pittsburghs defense and Matt Murray... and the refs. Lol.
 
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31VFL said:
http://www.espn.com/nba/matchup?gameId=400954513

1. GS shot 36 free throws in Game 4. The Cavs shot 31.

2. GS had 4 technical fouls. CLE had 3 technicals and 1 flagrant.

3. If you take out all 21 FT the Cavs made, it's still just a tie game.
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That doesn't tell the story. Literally every starter for the Warriors had two fouls after the first quarter. That changed the game. There were mostly phantom fouls also. But, to their credit, Cleveland made everything. They couldn't miss, so they definitely took advantage of it
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
That doesn't tell the story. Literally every starter for the Warriors had two fouls after the first quarter. That changed the game. There were mostly phantom fouls also. But, to their credit, Cleveland made everything. They couldn't miss, so they definitely took advantage of it
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You're right, the Cavs hitting 24 3's tells the story.
 
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