Oops! I was the one who posted that. I googled 'drug rehab' and came up with that. Just goes to show that Scientologists have Google in their back pocket... another conspiracy!
Oops! I was the one who posted that. I googled 'drug rehab' and came up with that. Just goes to show that Scientologists have Google in their back pocket... another conspiracy!
Maybe Bettman is a Scientologist.....hmmmmm? And Maybe he only lets other Scientogists into his private "owners group". Ah ha! Thats why Ball-silly couldn't get a team.
p.s. If Tom Cruise or Jon Travolta get a hockey team...we here on MAACA now know the "real" story behind NHL ownership!
I agree with Jonny. Assuming there is a conspiracy, the NHL has poorly chosen the supposed beneficiaries. The Leafs market is the biggest in the NHL and they haven't come out on top in years.
Also, consider the fever dream Bettman holds near and dear to his heart for a southern American hockey renaissance. Wouldn't that drive teams like Phoenix and Dallas further up the rigged standings?
Actually forget about Dallas and Phoenix ... the Trashers are owned/were owned by one the wealthest TV moguls around ... and yet they have never ..... ever .... had any success in the playoffs .. If the tiny perfect commissioner was fixing things this franchise would be a dyansty and on TBS every game, instead they are nearly bankrupt and looking to move (albight to a hockey hotbed like Kansas City / Portland or Las Vegas)
Centigrade 37 ... LOTR in da House ... a Barracora ....... Spidey ... RFM
the Trashers are owned/were owned by one the wealthest TV moguls around ... and yet they have never ..... ever .... had any success in the playoffs .. If the tiny perfect commissioner was fixing things this franchise would be a dyansty and on TBS every game, instead they are nearly bankrupt and looking to move (albight to a hockey hotbed like Kansas City / Portland or Las Vegas)
Funny that as soon as they were owned be the NHL they started doing well, and even made the playoffs....hmmmm
Funny that as soon as they were owned be the NHL they started doing well, and even made the playoffs....hmmmm
But they are bleeeeeeeding money big time and they aren't doing well .. they missed the playoffs yet again and they sold the only grade A player they had
Centigrade 37 ... LOTR in da House ... a Barracora ....... Spidey ... RFM
OK... now I am not writing this because I am a Habs fan, but tonight's game just reinforced the theory that it is fixed.
1- Washington was tripping and cross-checking all game... not all calls were made. 2- I saw 2 bullshit penalties for tripping and breaking sticks against the Habs 3- Caps were hitting Halak like crazy... nothing.
and the kicker...
4- Pouliot rushes the goal with a Caps player on each side. Caps can't contain him so they trip him and drag him down right towards the net. Varlamov is completely out of position and the puck, now on Gionta's stick, shoots it in, but Pouliot, dragged by the 2 Caps players knock the goal off.
If you look at the sequence, you see clearly the Caps player on the right of Pouliot, falling and moving himself right in front of Pouliot's skates in order to trip him. Possible penalty shot.
AND... there is a rule in the NHL that stipulates that if in the circumstance that a goal would have inevitably been scored if the net was i place, the goal should be awarded.
No penalty shot.
No penalty.
No goal.
Pure bullshit. The NHL wants their precious Ovechkin in the second round...
Go figure, Devorski is reffing the Sens/Pens game right now....he's got a rookie ref teamed up with him (suspicious)...little new guy trying to get in good with Bettman maybe?
-Anyways, suspect calls right away against the Sens, leading to a PP goal by the Pens, surprise surprise!
-Sens battled back 11 shots to 4, and scored two goals
***Ready for this prediction**** Many more penalties against the Sens....Pens win the game.
... and just for fun, guess who reffed the Habs/Caps game tonight...
Well, if the NHL being fixed is the price I pay for not seeing the Habs advance, then... so be it! Fix away! Go 'Whoever' the NHL wants to win!
I hate the Habs like a canker sore... but even I'd admit the game I just watched didn't have such great reffing... mostly around the goalie interference stuff.
OK... now I am not writing this because I am a Habs fan, but tonight's game just reinforced the theory that it is fixed.
1- Washington was tripping and cross-checking all game... not all calls were made. 2- I saw 2 bullshit penalties for tripping and breaking sticks against the Habs 3- Caps were hitting Halak like crazy... nothing.
and the kicker...
4- Pouliot rushes the goal with a Caps player on each side. Caps can't contain him so they trip him and drag him down right towards the net. Varlamov is completely out of position and the puck, now on Gionta's stick, shoots it in, but Pouliot, dragged by the 2 Caps players knock the goal off.
If you look at the sequence, you see clearly the Caps player on the right of Pouliot, falling and moving himself right in front of Pouliot's skates in order to trip him. Possible penalty shot.
AND... there is a rule in the NHL that stipulates that if in the circumstance that a goal would have inevitably been scored if the net was i place, the goal should be awarded.
No penalty shot.
No penalty.
No goal.
Pure bullshit. The NHL wants their precious Ovechkin in the second round...
Well, if the NHL being fixed is the price I pay for not seeing the Habs advance, then... so be it! Fix away! Go 'Whoever' the NHL wants to win!
I hate the Habs like a canker sore... but even I'd admit the game I just watched didn't have such great reffing... mostly around the goalie interference stuff.
Habs or not, all of hockey suffers with this bullshit. They should rename the league the NHE, National Hockey Entertainment... like they did with wrestling.
... and just for fun, guess who reffed the Habs/Caps game tonight...
O'Halloran and Devorski.
And guess who reffed the last Pengiuns game (which they won) and was a total nut show by the Pens.....McCreary
So many penalties should have been called by on the Pens. Heck even a few possible suspensions. However, all the talk was "will Sens player Sutton get suspended for his clean hit"
Funny thing is the commentators on The TEAM radio show even mentioned a reffing problem with the other ref (Walsh) "Now Walsh has a *long history* of not calling blatant penalties when they happen to the Senators players"
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard them say that (I was driving to a friends house while the game was on).......Guess I'll be seeing Walsh for the rest of the Pens/Sens series. Or they will ship O'Halloran and Devorski over to these games, and send McCreary and Walsh(or some rookie ref) over to the MTL/WAS game. NHL is SAD
The refs are sucking big time. I was at the Sens game last night and it is the first time in a long time that the fans actually got really worked up over the calls. They were chanting "Refs suck" and "Bull$%#^". Some many missed calls. It also seems like there is a rule that no one is allowed to touch Crosby. I see the NHL setting this up to be a showdown between the Caps and the Pens in the east. Talk about a revenue cow. And since the NHL is supporting a number of US teams, I can see why they need the money. Cherry and others are calling out the refs for their favourtism and suspicious calls. Just look at the Lidstrom play from the bench and he didn't get called on it.
Sens will be done on Thursday. I just don't want to see Crosby win again. I am fine with the cup going to the Caps.
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