Refs didn't help.. Shouldn't matter honestly. We played about 35 minutes of playoff hockey tonight. Just isn't good enough.
Hey Mick!
THANK YOU SIR!!
“Refs didn’t help..Shouldn’t matter honestly.”
Best, and most together, general attitude on refs I’ve seen, IMHO!!
Acknowledges that refs calls can certainly affect a games outcome!! But points out also that, lesser quality play, almost never makes up for bad ref calls, that can potentially change a games outcome!!
It also implies that good, solid, 60 minute effort, games, produce mostly GOOD outcomes, while rendering most bad ref calls as just another challenge in the game that was OVERCOME!!
Good teams GENERALLY overcome bad calls! Teams that play with only half of a foot on the gas pedal, GENERALLY, allow the “bad refs” issue to float straight to the top of their “why” list!!
Now, before some folks here, (who tend to throw the bad referee thing out there more often), get all uptight with me....well, first off, the crux of my post is not to attack your opinion. Not my intent! There are A LOT of bad calls to choose to talk about, in a lot of games! So, if your focus is there, great!! It’s tomayto/tomahto to me! But I will ask you to consider something in advance:
Show me a game where the Caps put out a game 5 type, super effort, through all 3 periods, where we get rewarded for our efforts, with a kick ass win, even when refs may make some bad calls against us!!
Now I ask you, what comments, afterward, are the most prevalent, and what is remembered MOSTLY, about a game like that!!.....Joy, and positive fan praise, for our boys, or angry ref bashing??.......
EXACTLY!!!
Ok, now back to main purpose of post!!
THANKS MICSTIX!!!👍 (keeping it real, even when less than sober)!!!😂🤣😂
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