The game was a real nail-biter for sure!!! Both teams played hard! I will not say that the Bous were undeserving of the win because they played with emotion and kept coming til the end. They have a good team there and they played a good game!!! But I will say that the Cats were ROBBED!!!! Due to the fact that the ref decided to take matters into his own hands in the last couple of minutes of the 3rd and therefore played a BIG part in the outcome IMO. This is exactly what most GOOD officials try to avoid. LET THE TEAMS DECIDE THE GAME!!!!
The penalties were already lopsided at that point, but hey Im not going to go there!! Then the call with 1:30 left was marginal at best and definitely wasn’t blatant or definitely didn’t interrupt a scoring chance. But hey, I guess I can suck that one up too!!! The worst was yet to come. With just under a minute left and the Cats killing the penalty, Lapointe is battling in front of Jewer (away from the play) and gives the guy a shot (like you see in front of the net thousands of times when a team is short) toot goes the whistle and he puts them down 5 on 3!!! Then with the goalie pulled its 6 on 3!!!
ID LOVE TO SEE THE BOUS FANS REACTION TO THIS SITUATION IF THE TABLES WERE TURNED!!!!!!! I’LL JUST LEAVE THAT ONE FOR THE IMAGINATION!!!
For the guy who said fans have “serious issues” if they don’t think those penalties should have been called, then I guess you can add me to that list – YOUR list. Because I would suggest that your hockey knowledge is lacking in the traditional sense if you think that those calls SHOULD have been made. I tell you what.........the next time you see a one-goal game with under two minute to go and the ref calls two penalties back to back to put a team down 5 on 3 PM me and I’ll send you a 20 spot in the mail!!!! Ask the players what they think of this situation and they’ll tell you that THE TEAMS SHOULD DECIDE!!
And for the people suggesting that the “leagues” should know better than to have this ref out there in such a big game then I say this. It is not the leagues that dictate who will ref games, that decision lies solely with HNL!! And here’s HNL once again showing their LACK OF RESPECT for senior hockey by putting this guy out there for this big game. You see....... HNL looks at these kinds of games as an OPPORTUNITY to evaluate some of their up and coming officials, when they should be OBLIGATED putting THE BEST POSSIBLE OFFICIALS ON THE ICE!!!! GUESS WHAT HNL – YOUR THINKING IS BACKWARDS – SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!
Then the real eye-opener for me is to come on here and read post from fans of the east coast league that this guy is KNOWN to be brutal!!!! So the burning question is WHY DID HNL DECIDE TO GIVE HIM THIS HUGE GAME?????
And last I have to address the glass breaking situation. Catch22 acts like nobody in the history of Clarenville has done anything over the line when it comes to referees........LOLOLOLOL!!!!
And then to say that the Cats fans BROKE the glass is hilarious!! Remind me not to get into a scrap with the guy that has his knuckle cut after breaking the glass!!!! This is PLEXI glass were talking about here, not plate glass. It is designed to withstand 100mph shots and big men hurling themselves and others into it. So to let you in on a little secret it occasionally gets banged and shook!!!!! But how often to you see it break? I would suggest that there must be some fault with the glass that broke for it to break so easily and it was just a FLUKE occurrence. And IMAGINE fans actually banging on the glass when a fight is taking place right in front of them – NEVER SAW THAT BEFORE!!!! Lololololol!!!! As for the throwing water bottles.........I didnt see it, but I agree theres no place for it, but hey I can tell you that I can UNDERSTAND their frustration in this situation!! Its too bad all the fans aren’t SAINTS like those Bous fans – we’d all be alot better off!!!!
This series is going 7 ladies and gentlemen.............see you back in the CEC Sunday night!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CATS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
