October 19, 200717 yr Author That sequence with Hal Gill and Chad Kilger was a little ridiculous on the part of the refs.
October 19, 200717 yr Author Very poorly called game by the refs.  Honestly, its not even the ticky tack calls on both sides, its the lack of a consistent officiating game.  However, the Panthers power play did nothing after the first one.
October 19, 200717 yr that hurt...too many bad memories of blowing games last year in the final minute
October 19, 200717 yr Author It wasn't even that the Panthers blew it. It was just meh. Nothing they could do off that rebound.
October 19, 200717 yr What did I miss? Short answer, panthers lost, leafs scored with under 30 seconds left.... Long answer, with about a minute left, a Leaf player (name escaping me, Gill maybe?) and Stumpel get tied up in the Panthers zone, Leaf player drops gloves, Stump tries to move along out of zone. In the meantime, Jay-Bo takes the puck coast to coast puts a puck in the crease that went just wide. Leafs got the puck take it back up ice and put in a rebound. The problem was that there should have been a whistle to stop play once the Leaf player dropped gloves looking to fight. Either way, the Panthers didn't capitalize on their opportunities and were pretty flat in the second and third periods. Anderson played well again, hope Vokoun is back out there on Sat. though. The good news is that the Lightning and Caps lost yesterday also, so no ground lost there. And, yes, I realize it's early but the last two years the main problem was getting buried in the division in Oct/Nov. so I keep track of these things.
October 19, 200717 yr I am still pissed off one day after. So was Olli. Such a heart breaking loss especially because of the way we had been playing the last 3 games.
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