I think I should have labelled this thread the general degredation of hockey.
I'm not bitching aobut losing - in fact, my team destroyed the Wild [4-0 for a while, though the Wild got 3 goals in later on]. Despite the victory, the game play was stuffy (yes, like a cold). I'm just tired of seeing a team ruin hockey with a cramped style of play - it isn't just me, people on forums everywhere are complaining about this and about refing.
Refing is another huge issue - biased refs [MAGOO MAGOO MAGOO against Vancouver] ruin the game - Mini had 7 men on the ice, and it wasn't called. Jason King was shoved to the ice from a stick-shove to his back by Mitchell [Normally a double-minor for what he did]. And what gets me most is that large players like Bertuzzi are getting screwed over - they can be hooked, crosschecked, held and the refs will ignore it, simply becuase they are big. It kept Minnesota alive last game.... If they don't fix these two things up, Hockey, despite the fact that some people here appreciate ?? trap, is going to lose viewership. A 1-0 Game sucks. Period.
Oh, and about Gaborik, sure he scored 30, but it's obvious that any player will score more on an offensively minded team than on a defensive, sit-tight team like Minni.
Excuse the lack of structure, flow and grammatical "correctness" of this post, but I have a huge essay tomorrow, so I'm in a bit of rush .
