I just had a rage flashback to my very rational hatred of Corey Perry and those Anaheim Ducks teams of the aughts.
Panthers/Heat had same issue last year. And since they play in different buildings I think home games were conflicting too.
I always want to feel bad for Detroit but then I remember the Wings and that one Pistons team were all in our lifetime. Cleveland is the city that has it bad.
Don’t know what view you got on TV but that call happened right in front of me and was obvious as hell. Brown came from behind wrapped an arm around the Panther player’s neck and pulled him down.
They've been shaky on the backline all night and hard to count on Bob to bail you really don't know what version you're going to get from him from game to game in the postseason
No. I think Bob is still fine. Had the week off. Ekblad did him no favors and a couple of goals were just lasers. swayman is just the story. He had that ridiculous save about 90 seconds into the game and that enabled the bruins from there. Panthers could have been up 2/3-0 on the leafs with that start.
Once they were up 3 goals sure but prior to that panthers created a whole lot of chaos in front of that net. Tkachuk fired a fairly open chance wide too right next to the net. 3rd period it went into shutdown
Bounce back performance after those three lackluster games against the Leafs. Lohrei and Brazeau balling out is lovely to see.
The NHL rule book explicitly mentions above the opponent’s shoulders. It doesn’t mention if the opponent has to be standing mostly upright but it’s implied in the sense that there wouldn’t be a high sticking penalty on an opponent lying down on the ice or on their knees. Good non-call imo since Lundell was quite hunched.
Also, a big, rare shout out to ESPN for using a normal camera angle. Night and day versus the usual garbage low camera angle from the Panthers home broadcasts.
This is pretty definitive. The miss had little to do with the final result but this is a very easy blown call.