Thomas Townsend: Jackets went streakin'

Funny how the NHL office fines Torts for having balls to make an accurate statement, calling out the refs & the Toronto black hole of logic.
I didn't see any comments disagreeing with Torts or saying it was not true.

Much to the opposite of what Gary Buttman says about cleaning it up. The fines for head hits by players with a history of hits, knee-to-knee, slew foots, etc. is much less than what Torts got.

The NHL office & DoPS is such a farce. It's all about the $$ that Buttman puts in the league's till. It's not about spreading the game . . . or he would come to an agreement about the Olympics. It's about paying the NHL to allow their players to participate.

Birdie,

Sorry but I have to disagree with you here. Even if a big mistake was made, putting together a timeline where they win the game is a long shot at best. He made his complaint public, knew he was going to get fined, and didn't care. He also apologized for it later. It happened, time to move on.

You just can't let coaches and front office people go rip city on officials when the make an error. It destroys the league when you don't fine people for stuff like this.

Let's hope they can take two or three more scalps out west this week.

Birdie,

Sorry but I have to disagree with you here. Even if a big mistake was made, putting together a timeline where they win the game is a long shot at best. He made his complaint public, knew he was going to get fined, and didn't care. He also apologized for it later. It happened, time to move on.

You just can't let coaches and front office people go rip city on officials when the make an error. It destroys the league when you don't fine people for stuff like this.

Let's hope they can take two or three more scalps out west this week.
- jkumpire

Yes - Torts had to know he'd get fined. What rips me is that the NHL seems to hold everyone accountable - except - their officials, the Toronto black hole, and DoPS. The egregious & obvious mistakes, and inconsistencies occuring in those people just go on . . . and on . . . and on !! They are not fined, suspended, - ANYTHING !!

Thomas Townsend: Jackets went streakin'
- Thomas Townsend

Our AHL depth has been exceptional, considering there are about 7-8 regulars on DTD or IR , especially Robinson and Stenlund (and experts said the cbj had a bare cup of prospects) , Robinson could become a Jenner/Anderson clone. As for Elvis, this is what management was talking about, when having a healthy competition in nets between him and Korpi. Gerbe is back to his sneaky, clutch plays from his Buffalo days, he's having a sort of career renaissance.

This is a good problem to have but management will have some though decisions going forward once those regulars get back in the lineup.

Perhaps I could venture a trade or two going into the deadline if this sort of play keeps up. They have awfully silent on the trade front especially considering all the injuries.

With the kids playing the way they are the rest of the league has to be taking notice. I can see Toronto trying to get a defensemen (if Murray heals up that could work for both sides) and Boston could reach out for a mid 6 winger. The question is do CBJ look to acquire players..or picks?

With the kids playing the way they are the rest of the league has to be taking notice. I can see Toronto trying to get a defensemen (if Murray heals up that could work for both sides) and Boston could reach out for a mid 6 winger. The question is do CBJ look to acquire players..or picks?
- scraps11b

Gavrikov might of taken his spot

Yes - Torts had to know he'd get fined. What rips me is that the NHL seems to hold everyone accountable - except - their officials, the Toronto black hole, and DoPS. The egregious & obvious mistakes, and inconsistencies occuring in those people just go on . . . and on . . . and on !! They are not fined, suspended, - ANYTHING !!
- birdie03

Birdie,

I need to say that you and I don't know how officials are disciplined by the league, but I would guarantee you they are disciplined by the league. But we also need acknowledge that the pool of professional officials able to work in the NHL is very, very small.

I don't know if you have ever officiated, but I have on different levels in different sports than hockey, and on the levels I work people are disciplined for errors, usually by not getting games. I can easily see NHL officials being fined, not get playoff games (as happened last year after the SJ/COL controversy) or being let go after a season of work. We will never know how those things work because the NHL doesn't send out press releases saying "Official XYZ was fired by the NHL because he blew too many calls in game X, or number of games." Nobody would care if they did make these announcements.

Officiating on the top professional levels is extremely difficult, with the speed of the game, the massive rule books that must be mastered, and the number of judgment calls that must be made to enforce rules with very fine lines to them.

I have no idea if there is rule coverage for the situation that happened in the game. If there is no rule that allows resetting the clock in that situation, how can the on-ice officials do it? Then the other team is going feel they were cheated.

Bad breaks happen in all sports, including the NHL. Players and coaches have to bow their necks and deal with it. It why winning championships are so hard, and so important to celebrate.

Sorry for the long reply, it's doggone amazin' this team can actually smell the playoffs at this point, and who knows, they are only seven points out of 2nd in the Metro with half the season the play. Who thought this run could happen in November, especially with our goalie situation?