So Nurse tripping/slashing from behind on breakaway is OK

[bluetunehead]

Brutal non-call. Nurse’s stick swing clearly caused Walker to lose his footing and stumble into the net.

The defensive breakdown at the other end was pretty bad tho. Schenn and Fowler both completely focused on McDavid leaving an open man in the slot.

[Bacchk29]

I don’t like blaming the refs but geez walker got called for the same freaking type of play two minutes earlier. I’d argue this was worse bc it was at least a partial breakaway. No idea how that wasn’t called. Makes zero sense other than it’s the NHl.

Yep. Neither of the calls on Walker or McDavid can be made if you are going to let that last one go. It was a case of a ref “not wanting to decide the game” deciding the game. It gave Edmonton numbers the other way.

Then again the Blues never should have been in that position. I thought the Blues’ bench decisions last night were awful. Basically rolling out one scoring line, two checking lines and then the Sunny line was used sporadically and often times had Walker in place of Bolduc and/or Snuggerud, which made that another checking line.

Constantly getting burned end of game with the 4th line on the ice. Understand we don’t get last change on the road but it happens way too often.

[WeWentBlues0819]

Brutal non-call. Nurse’s stick swing clearly caused Walker to lose his footing and stumble into the net.

The defensive breakdown at the other end was pretty bad tho. Schenn and Fowler both completely focused on McDavid leaving an open man in the slot.

It was brutal on multiple levels. The Blues did not get breakaway scoring attempt or the powerplay/penalty shot.

Part of the defensive breakdown was that one of our guys was tripped and completely taken out of the play.

[bud white]

I'm still trying to figure out how skating into a goalies head isn't a penalty. Perry wasn't going to get called for it.

It's SC playoffs and I still for the life of me can't comprehend how GMs look the other way on how goalies - their most important position - are still getting run by POSs such as Kadri, Perry and the like. Edmonton's left with Pickard (who is just horrible, by the way) because Skinner was hit in the head and is still out with neck / possibly concussion issues. He got cracked pretty good.

If the Oil are left with Pickard, they are out in the first round.

[zamadoo]

Yeah, total [nonsense], but somehow I wasn't even surprised. The commentators acted like it didn't even happen.

That was one of the worst job of "broadcasting" I've ever had to endure for a nhl game.

I was thinking the same thing. They were slow in their calls and the main guy just seemed to use gimmicks like raising his voice annoyingly rather than actually call the game.

Yeah, total [nonsense], but somehow I wasn't even surprised. The commentators acted like it didn't even happen.

That was either the worst missed call I've ever seen or the best non-call that I've ever seen. I'm not really sure.

Haha yeah idk, maybe somehow a combo of both. Like how both the refs and the broadcast team missed Perry jabbing at Binner with his stick after he ran him.