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Wow. Tampa just tearing NYI apart. And the Isles will be praying that Barzal only gets a fine.

I thought game 3 was officiated worse than game 4, but that's just me.

Baseball umpires are way worse than NHL refs. Umpires each have their own strike zone, none of which is how the rules are written. Even different pitchers get different strike zones, because umps give good pitchers more leeway (Greg Maddux had one of the biggest strike zones ever). MLB umpires also love putting themselves at the center of attention when players or managers come out to yell at them. Officials in other sports just stand there nonplussed while they get yelled at and eject when necessary. Umpires escalate things by yelling and screaming right back and then ejecting people. I can't say much about NBA refs because I haven't watched it much in the last 20 years. But towards the end of me watching they had lost the ability to tell the difference between a charge and a block. NFL refs aren't great either. Pass interference was being called so inconsistently that they out in review for any possible PI call. The results were even more inconsistent and did nothing but slow the game down, so they get rid of the ability to challenge it. And just watch the line of scrimmage - you could make a call on pretty much every play. And determining what a catch is? It's a joke. Hockey is in no worse shape that's any other sport when it comes to officiating.

Who else can we trash? Anderson gets two and Byron assists on the winner. Maybe STAAL can get going again after his assist on the Vegas goal?

I love how they have to limit the number of people in the arena, but nobody cares that there are thousands of people packed in together outside, lol.

ANDERSON!!!!!!

It's been the passing. So little accuracy. So little control when the pass is accurate.

FREEBIE! All period the NBC guys have been praising MAF's skating and stickhandling.

Now they blow it when Patches chicken wings JK's stick. Ugh. Not what I meant, refs!

BLOW THE DAMN WHISTLE!

Habs need some passing drills.

CC BABY!!!!

WHAT WAS THAT STAAL?!?!?!?!

First shot goal? Let's do this PP!

Weak call.

Forgot to bring this up, but what was up with the official spraying Price with snow towards the end of the game? When a player does that it's a penalty! I don't know I'd refs get fined or if that would be public, but he should have been.

NHL's statement confirms his second dose was June 9. Nobody else has tested positive yet. Gonna be a long series with the possibility of more positives hanging over it.

Video coach is in the building, in a controlled environment, no? I think the concern is that they don't want coaches using outside resources they normally wouldn't have access to in the arena to try to affect the game.

Just because nobody tested positive last night/this morning before practice doesn't mean nobody will test positive this afternoon. Let's just hope everyone chose to take the vaccine and that it holds the virus off for most everyone else. Even so, the Yankees had 9 breakthrough cases last month, so this could get bad.

TSN Reporting it on their site now, also. https://www.tsn.ca/montreal-canadiens-dominique-ducharme-covid-19-game-3-1.1656737 What's really scary (from a fan perspective) is how many players might become infected now? He pulls his mask down to yell more than any other coach I have noticed. As such, I find it hard to believe he is wearing his mask behind closed doors.

I don't think coaches are allowed to have contact with the team during a game if they are not physically present, are they? At least, I'm pretty sure that was how it worked for NHL and NCAA football coaches.

It would have to be a pretty advanced chip if you want one chip to be able to provide enough data to verify the exact position of the puck. It would have to be able to register the exact orientation of the puck in three dimensions. Consideration my smart phone can't even get the compass to work to tell which direction I am facing, I kind of doubt the kind of chip that could provide such data cheaply.

Two of the three guys I suggested to be the guy benched in favor of Tatar scored. You're welcome.

Great period... But Jeff Perry's eyes... WTH!?!?

Yvonne is calling in a little back up: