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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Hurry up faceoff is all I remember... seeing Darryl pointing to go upstairs and then seeing play resume almost in rapid motion.. I think 46 seconds from the time Gelinas shot, to the whistle, to the faceoff and I remember going like 'wtf??'
Was shocked then, still shocked now, put a friggen asterisk beside it Tampa.
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Nobody on the ice thought that puck was in. Not one player pointed to the officials. Nobody on the bench. You can invent conspiracy theories about "hurry up faceoffs" all you like, nobody had a clue until two or three minutes later when ABC found that replay. In arena though? Nobody knew until we got home and saw the highlights.
It sucks, because that puck was in, but no replay was asked for so there was no reason for the officials to check. It is just disappointing. What I am still bitter about in that series was Kerry Fraser taking only Commodore to the box when he was scrumming it up with a Lightning player after a whistle when Fraser knew we were already getting a penalty. He made a conscious decision to put us down 5 on 3 instead of 5 on 4, and it directly lost us a game.
THAT is the play I am still bitter about from that series. And that was a moment that everyone in arena knew right away we got screwed. It was also why Fraser never returned to Calgary to officiate a game until some time in 2007.