Hockey 2010-2011

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Originally Posted by smc

Whatever else happens in Game 6 of the Bruins-Canadiens series (I write this at 15:23 of the 2nd period), it will be remembered for two horrible calls by referees. In the first period, the Habs scored a goal that was ruled not a goal because of an early whistle. And now Milan Lucic has been thrown out of the game because of a hard hit on Spacek which, while it was definitely hard and Spacek definitely is injured, doesn't warrant being tossed!

Agreed on both counts. I'm still pissed off about that goal that was ruled not a goal.

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Originally Posted by ila

Agreed on both counts. I'm still pissed off about that goal that was ruled not a goal.

I agree on the non-goal(what is with those early whistles?!?), but I disagree with the Lucic hit. He had to be tossed for that one as it was a 5-minute major(hit from behind) in which a game-misconduct is automatic.

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I watched the game between Vancouver and Chicago(after watching the Jays smoke the Rangers of course), and boy oh boy, I WASN'T disappointed. It was AMAZING! I was on the edge of my seat(well, the edge of my couch actually) almost the entire time.

Cory Crawford pretty much was the only reason it wasn't 5-0 for Vancouver(this was obviously before Chicago tied it with a SH goal)! Some of the saves he made were play-of-the-year! I thought for sure that Vancouver was toast when they received a penalty for holding in OT(if it wasn't for a great save by Luongo, they would have been)! However, it was the player given the penalty that scored the winning goal! Burrows kept himself onside, and created the turnover by Campoli!

Now that the monkey is off their back(and specifially Luongo's), I think they will play the next series with a lot more intensity(like they did in game 7, with lots of hitting!). I don't think they will have nearly the amount of difficulty they had with Chicago, and should beat Nashville in 5 games.