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Originally Posted by Great Expectations
What an awful way to lose. The Preds likely lose game 7, but they at least should've had a shot at it.
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In fairness, the refs did spend the next period+ trying to even that up. The Preds were getting a lot of breaks/calls from that point forward.
Yeah, it's an odd rule but even the ref that blew the whistle had cause to do so. If you lose sight of the puck in the crease, you're supposed to blow the play dead. He made the call by the rulebook and yes, the right decision was made off that. It sucks for the Preds and if it happened to the Blues I'd be pretty damn irritated as well, but it is what it is.
The Preds had a lot of time to get that first goal afterwards and couldn't solve Murray.
My biggest beef with this series remains that bullshit offsides call in the first game. And not because of the call, but because of the stupid rule. There is no way at all that offsides should be a reviewable event.