Comments on Let's Go Birds: The Great Portland Screwjob of 2009... or not?

Thats how the league gets away with such bad offic...

2009-11-11T23:52:19.001-08:00

Thats how the league gets away with such bad officiating.. everyone just says "well it happens to every team, get over it." How about making it happen fewer times to fewer teams each season?? How's that for an idea?

I hope when we are the benefit of a "screw" job yo...

2009-11-11T22:51:53.577-08:00

I hope when we are the benefit of a "screw" job you take the same amount of time out of your life to analize the film and enjoy the benefit.... my god we have 5 wins give it a rest.

I could care less if there was 10 seconds left in ...

2009-11-11T20:09:45.699-08:00

I could care less if there was 10 seconds left in the game. You don't give up a goal with 2.6 seconds left in the game, (unless its an empty net). We would be better off slashing the hell out of who ever gets the puck on the faceoff. No excuse, bad beat.

Yeah and mike, if wells puts home that goal, we ar...

2009-11-11T16:18:22.099-08:00

Yeah and mike, if wells puts home that goal, we aren't even talking about that whistle. The call would of never mattered. There's a lot of what ifs in sports, it happened, it won't get taken back, so let's stop talking about it, and let's sure as hell stop complaining about it. Every year a ref screws over a team in some way, it happened, get over it.

Right many elements.. and if Zalaski doesnt blow t...

2009-11-11T12:34:37.320-08:00

Right many elements.. and if Zalaski doesnt blow the whistle early we arent having this conversation.

This of course comes on the heels of a horrible missed call the night before against Spok which led to an empty net goal. Lets start talking about getting better officiating so we can talk about players and not refs controlling the outcome of games.

It is what it is...it's hockey. Although I haven't...

2009-11-11T11:12:59.704-08:00

It is what it is...it's hockey. Although I haven't really heard or seen of many people who refuted the fact that Portland's goal was legit. Most people seem to know it was correct. The gripe I hear most and agreed with is when Portland started getting heavy momentum midway in the 3rd, it seemed Zalaski started giving them the benefit of a lot of key calls......But then again the many many reasons of why they didn't win is irrelevant they didn't.

Mike, as Tyler stated, there were numerous events ...

2009-11-11T08:06:26.379-08:00

Mike, as Tyler stated, there were numerous events that led to the goal that shouldn't have happened; Wells missing the empty net, Chaffin not clearing the puck, Pickard not dropping and sweeping the puck behind the net or off the boards right or left, Zalaski's part, the clock operator's part, Portland winning the draw, Seattle's defensive positioning, Francis' ability to get a shot away, and then there is both good and bad fortune, depending on your interest. The fact of the matter is that it was a fluke goal that happened to a young team at the end of a good effort. Bad luck. I am sure Portland has felt similarly the past three years. Sometimes things don't go your way and often it's when you can least afford it, emotionally. Tyler's last sentence sums it up perfectly.

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The real problem is that Zalaski blew the whistle ...

2009-11-10T23:33:14.946-08:00

The real problem is that Zalaski blew the whistle too early as Calvin was clearly about to drop the puck since the skaters were so far away with only a few seconds left. This was the bad call that led to the goal that shouldnt have happened.