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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I know everyone wants to pile on Virtanen, and the one he took to negate a 5 on 3 was terrible judgment, but the two penalties they called on him in the third were not penalties. Same with the Marner penalty. The refereeing was not good. The goaltending wasn't either. The puck luck was terrible - a puck over the glass at the far end? Yikes. The coaching has been mentioned.
A lot of things went wrong there. It's not on one guy. And the team looked fantastic in the first period. In the third, where'd the forecheck go?
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Yes they were.
On the first one,. he had his stick between the player's legs, but with no real intent, and the ref let it go. But then he persisted and got his stick between the guys legs again and the ref had no choice. A penalty every time.
The second call (the slash) was just too blatant to ignore. He lifted his stick pretty high and came straight down on the other player's stick. Again, that's going to get called in international play every time.
Marner and the defenseman were pushing each other - no problem. Then Marner punched him in the face. Gave the ref something to call.
Sure, the game is not all on one guy. But Virtanen gave as good of an effort as you'll ever see for trying to put it all on one guy