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I'm not uploading one of those (unless enough people really like this one) but here you go...

Well, listened to many trying to explain why the reffing last night was all correct. On the first one, people are trying to quote a rule about a benched player interfering in the play. That rule specifically states a benched player is one with at least one foot still on the bench, in the door, etc. This also includes the penalty box. Of course, if you are a benched player, then there is not too many men on the ice. The replay clearly shows that Blunden was 5 feet from the bench when the hit occurred. This rule does not apply. The replay does show Cole 5 feet from the bench when Blunden stepped on, so I have no issue with the too many men. Now two players jump Blunden and they didn't get an instigator. This is refs discretion. He chose not to give a penalty, even knowing that he was going to give a double to Blunden for interference and too many men. It sure seems to me that Tim Peel was deliberately giving it to the Habs, like a ref tossing one guy in a scrum to warn the teams to settle down. I didn't see anything to warrant this message going to the Habs. It was simply a clean hit, didn't even hurt the guy. Second controversy was the "snowing the goalie" penalty. People have defended this as a crackdown this year on that kind of play. They imply that Subban did something intentional and that he snowed the goalies face. He might have been late in stopping, but keep in mind that Lundquist had bobbled the puck several times. The replay also shows that at worse, he snowed his pads as Lundquist was not snowed in the upper body.. . So why does Tim Peel decide to call this, after a very one sided game in which even Torts commented that the next call would come to his team. Hmm... Well, if the Habs had been snowing Lundquist all night and had been warned to stop, then I could see it. None of that occurred. In fact, you could argue Price was the subject of worse then Lundquist. Not to the point where I would expect a penalty to the Rangers... So twice in the game, Tim Peel stretches his "discretion" to penalize the Habs. He also calls several other softies while ignoring some blatant Rangers penalties. Personally, I have seen this from him before. He has done this to the Habs several times in games against the Leafs. Technically, all his calls were legal (except for that interference call), but his discretion is always one sided. I personally think he is incompetent, but I also think he is biased against the Habs. He was looking to screw us last night and he did. Note that I have watched him ref games without the habs where one team was so dirty, chippy, etc that the fans were screaming. The one team was hitting the goalie after every stop. They were slashing. There were borderline hits and fights... I didn't see his discretion being used to penalize that team. (It was philly). So.. long story short,... my personal opinion is that Tim Peel is an incompetent boob with a bias against the Habs.. I look forward to him screwing us again in the future. Just wait for it.

I don't mean to attack you here, but I have to say, I really have a hard time taking your posts about coaching seriously when you continually use an insulting name for the coach. It just goes to show the continual lack of respect... the same lack of respect that means we give Halak all the credit for JM's wins, and give JM all the shit for his losses.

I wish I had season tickets behind the habs bench - I'd be much harder on the Penguin then Brooksie has been on Torts.