Friday, April 09, 2004
A good friday
It's Good Friday and all is good in Ottawa.
Much loathed sports radio embarrassment The Dandyman has been taken off the air (hopefully permanently) because of his comments about Tie Domi.
And based on the good karma resulting from his indefinite suspension, the Sens went into Toronto and beat the Leafs. It is really unfortunate that many Maple Leaf fans aren't knowledgeable enough to understand that they didn't lose the game because of the refs. They lost because they weren't the best team on the ice.
I've read numerous postings by Leaf fans complaining about the refs costing their team the game last night. To be fair, there are lots of Leaf fans that aren't doing that. But the ones that are complaining are either completely unknoweldgeable about the NHL or completely blinded by the blue and white goggles. They are also the fans that give Leaf fans the worst reputation of any group of NHL fans.
The refs missed plenty of calls against the Leafs and there weren't even many questionable calls against them. Just because Bob Cole and Harry Neale can't figure out what the Leafs did to get penalized doesn't make it a questionable call.
Even the heavily-biased CBC crew replayed numerous missed Toronto infractions including the slash on Chris Neil, the highstick on Martin Havlat, Ron Francis tackling Petr Bondra and Ed Belfour whacking Todd White with his stick.
Hopefully, the Sens will continue to prevail over the Leafs but one game doesn't mean I should be breaking out the broom for Wednesday's game at the Corel Centre just yet. Two years ago, the Sens went into Toronto and dominated the Leafs only to lose the series in 7 games.
Much loathed sports radio embarrassment The Dandyman has been taken off the air (hopefully permanently) because of his comments about Tie Domi.
And based on the good karma resulting from his indefinite suspension, the Sens went into Toronto and beat the Leafs. It is really unfortunate that many Maple Leaf fans aren't knowledgeable enough to understand that they didn't lose the game because of the refs. They lost because they weren't the best team on the ice.
I've read numerous postings by Leaf fans complaining about the refs costing their team the game last night. To be fair, there are lots of Leaf fans that aren't doing that. But the ones that are complaining are either completely unknoweldgeable about the NHL or completely blinded by the blue and white goggles. They are also the fans that give Leaf fans the worst reputation of any group of NHL fans.
The refs missed plenty of calls against the Leafs and there weren't even many questionable calls against them. Just because Bob Cole and Harry Neale can't figure out what the Leafs did to get penalized doesn't make it a questionable call.
Even the heavily-biased CBC crew replayed numerous missed Toronto infractions including the slash on Chris Neil, the highstick on Martin Havlat, Ron Francis tackling Petr Bondra and Ed Belfour whacking Todd White with his stick.
Hopefully, the Sens will continue to prevail over the Leafs but one game doesn't mean I should be breaking out the broom for Wednesday's game at the Corel Centre just yet. Two years ago, the Sens went into Toronto and dominated the Leafs only to lose the series in 7 games.
