I have to give some Oiler fans credit in the HFOil thread because they didn't lean on the tired Refs cost us the game. There were a few but the thread felt more like a white flag waving surrender thread.
I also give credit because some Oiler fans are finally seeing Hall as the rest of the NHL sees him. He's lazy without the puck, isn't the smartest guy with the puck, and he won't do anything to win a game.
But back to the refs thing, there were some people whining because the Oilers got called for 6 pp and the Oilers got called for 2. But I really watched the Oilers last night and here's the thing.
The Oilers are incredibly lazy, they stop their own feet from moving so the hooks and the holds and the other penalties look like penalties, they are blatant and obvious. The Flames may have hooked and held like the Oilers but they kept their feet moving so it didn't look like penalties.
On the Goalie interference call, I'm kind of fuming about that because its the way the rule is right now. But come on the Flame wasn't in the blue paint and Talbot moved into him. Personally if I'm a goalie coach, I'm telling my goalie if the pressure gets to be too much to skate into a player because at that point no goal is going to count against. Its the goalies version of diving now.
I think that either they double the size of the blue paint, or put a 3 in the key rule in the goal area, at that point I quit watching hockey.
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