Dan Wood's laydown on the refs.

Dan Wood is pretty objective and a pretty good writer overall. I was surprised by the emotions in his latest blog about the Ducks getting shafted by the refs. You can tell how pissed off he is along with all the Ducks. I know it is pc to say don't complain but enough is enough.

http://ducks.freedomblogging.com/2009/02/22/ducks-again-running-afoul-of-referees/7239/

The Ducks received two of the first three power-play opportunities in Columbus, scoring on the first, but the remaining seven in the game went to the Blue Jackets. It’s astounding, really, how any NHL team could get seven consecutive power-play chances against any other NHL team. Action just isn’t that one-sided.


No one but the Ducks, of course, cares about any of this, but any objective observer can’t help but wonder exactly what in the name of Officer Koharski is going on here.

Can't say I disagree. I've had the feeling all season and I keep wondering if it's just me being biased or if there's really something there, but I definitely see different officiating standards for the Ducks/opposition.

So what he's saying is that we're the anti-Wings?

Y'know, there are a few instances where I think they've been shortchanged. But it's not that much. Maybe 1 every couple games or something.

Its quite simple we are known as a tough team that overloads on fighters. Gary Bettman is the commissioner of the NHL and is well known for his distaste of fighting and tough physical play in general.
Detroit and teams the like get away with pretty much anything and we get "special attention". Its basically the difference of why we are not currently a playoff team

Its quite simple we are known as a tough team that overloads on fighters. Gary Bettman is the commissioner of the NHL and is well known for his distaste of fighting and tough physical play in general.
Detroit and teams the like get away with pretty much anything and we get "special attention". Its basically the difference of why we are not currently a playoff team

We currently arent a playoff team because we arent that good.

We currently arent a playoff team because we arent that good.

currently no, we are not good enough, however there have been a few games that would have gone our way bar a few bad calls. however, that would just put us in a solid play off spot, not make us one of the top contenders

currently no, we are not good enough, however there have been a few games that would have gone our way bar a few bad calls. however, that would just put us in a solid play off spot, not make us one of the top contenders

how about lidstrom in the Det game he was caught red handed twice after his 1st penalty of the game and the ref's let him slide on the other 2 plus they had a blatant to many men call that was let slide as well. thats 3 more pp's in that game and we scored on 2 of the pp's that we had. really in that game it was a 2 goal game til the goal with 7 seconds left

Basically the NHL has neutered the balls of this team and its tough to constantly play with this disadvantage you could see the frustration in the players.

Basically the NHL has neutered the balls of this team and its tough to constantly play with this disadvantage you could see the frustration in the players.

It seems like the refs'll handicap every team that does not have the name "Chris Pronger" on their roster. Yep, we're it!

Semi related: http://ducks.freedomblogging.com/2009/02/27/lack-of-suspension-angers-ducks/7613/

They're pretty pissed.

The fact that Sabres center Paul Gaustad avoided supplementary discipline from the NHL after delivering a controversial late-game hit that left center Ryan Getzlaf with a broken nose and facial cuts basically has the Ducks mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.

“I’m not happy,” Ducks general manager Bob Murray said after Gaustad was in Buffalo’s lineup for Thursday night’s 2-1, shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C. “If we’re going to be suspended for blows to the head, then they have to look at the other teams when our guys get hit. This just astounds me that Gaustad is not getting something for this, because that was on purpose and deliberate.”
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“Corey Perry got suspended for a hit to the head,” Murray said. “Why can’t other players do it to Anaheim Ducks players and get a suspension? He (Gaustad) jumped up. He left his feet. His helmet or his shoulder could have hit Getzy in the head, and it’s totally ridiculous that that wasn’t a suspension.
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Getzlaf, who had bit his tongue since the incident, has also had enough.

“It’s embarrassing,” Getzlaf said. “It’s the same story all the time. They’re talking about taking head shots out of the game, and he (Gaustad) goes off and does something like that, and because it’s not a nationally televised game or something, nothing happens. The league just sits there. If it happens to (Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney) Crosby or somebody that’s in a big market, and it’s on a nationally televised game, that’s a suspension. It’s incredible that that stuff goes on.”
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Just as was the case after the Phaneuf hit on Ebbett, television and other media north of the border did not jump all over the Gaustad-Getzlaf story. Late last season, after initially doing nothing, the NHL received additional video supplied by a Canadian television outlet and handed Ducks defenseman Chris Pronger an eight-game suspension for a “stomping” incident against Vancouver Canucks center Ryan Kesler.
“We have our own reputation, I guess, but I think it’s more the fact that it’s not in the spotlight and it’s not all over Canadian TV, where they have to do something,” Getzlaf said. “If the media doesn’t react to it because it’s not a televised game all over Canada …
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“A perfect example was against LA a week and a half ago in our rink. Scotty Niedermayer goes behind their net, and somehow — he didn’t run the goalie — they bumped each other. We ended up with an extra two minutes. Their goaltender (rookie Jonathan Quick) got nothing, and he got a free blocker shot to Scotty Niedermayer’s head. That is what has been going on, and I do not understand it. I wish somebody could explain it to me.”
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“Every time there’s a scrum, or every time one of our players gets hit in the head, it can’t be, ‘No, it’s not a suspension.’ I’m sorry. It just can’t be that way.”