22 March, 2010

Category Archives: Incompetent Referees

Goal or No Goal? When the Caps Are Involved, the NHL Has Offered Conflicting Answers

11 February, 2010

Here’s why a good many Caps’ fans are having difficulty squaring last night’s goal reversal against Alexander Ovechkin, which proved decisive in Montreal’s 6-5 overtime triumph: when it really mattered — in game 7 of the 2008 playoffs against the Flyers, and Cristobal Huet got bowled over and taken out of the play, leading to [...]

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A Warrior's Will Wins It

18 November, 2009

“Tremendous intensity to this game, right from the start,” Versus’ Joe Micheletti informed viewers. I remind: once upon a time this was a Patrick division rivalry game. And the intensity was not unlike what we saw twice earlier on Versus this season, in games against Philly, another Patrick division alum. The weekend before last, during a home-and-home [...]

Also filed in 2 Points, Alexander Ovechkin, Bruce Boudreau, John Erskine, Mathieu Perreault, Matt Bradley, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, New York Rangers, The Great Old Patrick Division, Washington Capitals | Comments (2)

A Would-Be Zebra's Code of Behavior

22 October, 2008

A morning shower train of thought: were I an NHL referee, how would players, coaches, and fans commonly characterize my officiating style?
For starters, I would¬†well withstand¬†charges of blindness; thanks to Lasik, I’m a fella who can read the tiny scroll on the corner hanging television viewed from the tavern’s most secluded corner.
But more importantly, every [...]

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And The Winners Are . . .

15 August, 2008

The winners in the OFB contest for Referee Taunts are:

Hey ref… get off your knees! You’re blowing the game!
Hey ref! Does your wife know you’re screwing us?

If you’d like a Friday chuckle, check out the thread with all reader-submitted ref abuse if you haven’t done so already. To all those who participated: your year-round readership [...]

Also filed in Hockey Wit, NHL Linesmen | Comments (0)

Ref, You Suck! Insulting Hockey's Men in Stripes

6 August, 2008

The hockey-less heat of August provides one welcome relief for the NHL fan: freedom from the often egregious and grotesque officiating of NHL referees.
Though no stripe-clad man is currently jobbing the Capitals, we can still use this time to hone our taunting skills. Bellowing at refs is a long-standing tradition . . . and [...]

Also filed in NHL Linesmen, NHL Rules, OFB Loot, OFB Polls, Puck Sodas, Schadenfreude, Video Clips | Comments (52)

Street Crime in Canada

4 July, 2008

We love this story out of Kingston, Ontario, delivered this week by The Empty Netter: the Kingston town fathers decreed that children¬†there were limited to a single hour’s play at street hockey during any four-hour block of time between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., in a city bylaw known as the¬†Street Hockey Policy and Code [...]

Also filed in Hardcore Hockey Fans, Hockey Heroes, Hockey Rituals, Hockey Towns | Comments (2)

"I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t understand sometimes what?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s going on at this World Championship"

12 May, 2008

As always, many thanks to our friend Dmitry Chesnokov for translating and passing on the following.
As a result of a poll conducted by “Sport” [Russia's public sports channel] and Sovetsky Sport [Russia's largest newspaper], Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin was named Athlete of the Month in April. Alex received 51.4% of [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, IIHF, Sweden, World Championships | Comments (9)

"I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t understand sometimes what?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s going on at this World Championship"

12 May, 2008

As always, many thanks to our friend Dmitry Chesnokov for translating and passing on the following.
As a result of a poll conducted by “Sport” [Russia's public sports channel] and Sovetsky Sport [Russia's largest newspaper], Washington Capitals and Russian national team forward Alexander Ovechkin was named Athlete of the Month in April. Alex received 51.4% of [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, IIHF, Sweden, World Championships | Comments (9)

Sunday Bloody Sunday at the Worlds

12 May, 2008

A World Championship that in its first week was marked by superb officiating (you didn’t hear anything about the guys in stripes, right? That means something.) took an abrupt turn for the markedly worse Sunday, as incompetent on-ice work by the four men in stripes working Sunday’s U.S.-Finland tilt had a partner in crime off [...]

Also filed in IIHF, NHL Linesmen, World Championships | Comments (10)

Hardware Hopes and World-Class Hockey Help Alleviate Some Local Heartache

3 May, 2008

Last week, in the throes of a sudden and sour end to the season, it was somewhat difficult to delineate just how successful a season the Capitals and their fans had enjoyed, wasn’t it? Lip service to a terrific run could be mouthed, but there was a pervasive sense that something quite magical had prematurely [...]

Also filed in Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin, Hockey, IIHF, NHL Trophies, National Hockey League, New Jersey Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sergei Fedorov, Washington Capitals, World Championships | Comments (4)

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