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What do we think, guys?

I mean, okay, so I think Panthers fans right now are probably like, All right, Steve, let's hear it, because there was another goal tender interference challenge that failed, and a lot of people were like, Why did that fail?

It was a makeup call. I don't think anybody should just bandy around the issue. It was a makeup call. You can't call one and then not call the other. It was clearly the very similar play where everybody thinks it's goalie interference, and based on the rules, it should be called goalie interference, and the goal should be taken back, but they didn't do the other one, so you can't do this one. It's a make-up call.

I know people were pointing out Ekman Larson is the one who took out Bobrowski's stick. I was looking more at Heinen's stick being in Bobrowski's skate.

Yeah, and right on the pad.

Which is, to me, far more important. Bob is maybe of looking for the contact there with the arm. But Elliot Friedmann, he's one of the most informed and powerful insiders in all of hockey. I was listening to the 32 thoughts on the way in here. His best theory for why that counted is they didn't want to deal with it.

Oh, yeah. No, it's 100%. We made a certain call in the previous game. Now we have a very similar call. We got to keep our consistency here.

I'll be dramatic. And again, I don't have a in this fight. I'm a lead fan. Not the biggest fan of the Panthers. Not the biggest fan of the Bruins. I am a fan of hockey, so I'm watching. I hope this series goes seven and they tear each other apart. I hope game seven goes to seven overtimes and all of them collapse at the end of it. And then the fuck just sits there. The Stanley Cup playoffs are bordering on illegitimate. The thing is watching the Knucks in Edmonton Oilers, you wouldn't get that. No, but I'm teetering on that. You have numerous reporters, credentialed reporters, including Frieze. This was part of the 32 Thoughts discussion. They released an explanation. Oh, good. They released an explanation. Can either of you guys pull up the 13 words or whatever it was? 12 words that they pulled up for the explanation? You want me to read it?

Yeah.

Yeah, dude. It's literally... It wasn't goal tender interference because it wasn't. Anyway, get back to eating your slop. I know why you like them nice and sloppy. They're the lunch lady from Billy Madison, this league. Eat your slop, stupid. The NHL. The following is a statement from Gary Bettman. Eat your slop, dummy. It's not goalie interference because fuck you. Hey, why isn't this goalie interference? Why isn't it goalie interference?

Stop.

What? I'm a paying customer. I'm being the NHL. Here, here. You ask me a question. Here, here. No. Three came in. Adam, you ask me a question. Ask me a question.

The other play I thought was one of the more egregious officiating errors in all of the playoff so far was, Bobrowski made a shoulder save. He made a save with his shoulder, and he thought he was squeezing the tuck. So he went down in front of the crease, in the middle of the slot. He went down on the ice, but he didn't have the puck. And the official He didn't realize that he just made a save off his shoulder. The puck was just in the middle of the zone, and the Bruins were about to get it and score on an empty net because Borowski was lying in the middle of the slot thinking he was squeezing the puck. And the official decided, I'm going to blow the play dead because Borowski must have it or he's injured. And neither of that was the case. He was not injured. He just simply made a save and thought he had the puck. And the Bruins were about to score in an empty net. And the officials were just like, All right, stop play. And all the Bruins were just like, What are you doing? And there's no repercussions for that.

They stopped a scoring opportunity with an empty net, and you just got to move on. And I don't know how you get those things back, where the officials cost a team, possibly a goal, and you just got to move on with your life.I have a question.It hurts.

I have a question. Are NHL refs terrified of the Boston Bruins? I think they are.In what way? Because they can't officiate their games. Whether it's the Bruins getting the advantage on the whistle or the disadvantage on the whistle, I don't remember that. I watch a lot of hockey. I watch a lot of Bruins hockey. I can't remember the last normal game. There's always fucking something. This, Leifs Bruin series, was the most peaceful one by far, by far out of the four over the last 11 years.

It was.

By far the least amount of nonsense It's just a bunch of friends trying to, Look at that.

In case, I assume you haven't seen this yet, but this is what happened. Oh, my God. So right here, as I described, the Bruins have the puck by the face off dot. They have the puck, but Brovsky is almost literally in the slot way out of the zone because he made a shoulder save and he thought he was squeezing the puck. So he comes out, he makes the save. But if you see here where my mouse is, that's where the puck is going. It bounced off the shoulder. And he thinks he's saving it. So he's just way out the net here.

Bob is in the concourse getting chicken fingers. Are you kidding me?

Right about now, while the Bruins are shooting the puck on an empty net, is when the referee is like, oh, wait, no, Bob was injured. He's down here. He squeezed it. Little do they know the puck's just out of the zone. Not anywhere near the goalie. Did they score? No, Did they stopped play. No, no, no. But he took the shot. This shot did not go in. No, no. It lands about here, deflected. But there's a whole play going on.

Man. That's rough. I don't think I've ever seen a whistle for that ever. No. If a goalie gets hit in the mask, sometimes you might see it.

Dude, not that. They thought this injured him. Just a shot off the shoulder.

We need Jack Edwards on this one. Just take the Andreas Janssen audio and I'll put it over this. I mean, if he's not lying unconscious, he can't blow the plate dead. It's the same situation.

Your job as the linesman or the official when you're stopping plays is make sure you're stopping play for a good reason. Make sure the fuck is actually with the goalie. And they can't do the simple parts of their job.

I also want to say that hockey games don't stop because players are uncomfortable. So even if he It does hurt. Remember? Yeah, and they continue play.

I hate to be unc about this. Daniel Alfredson, near murdering Darcy Tucker and then scoring a game-winning goal while Darcy Tucker is twiddling on the ice.

It's uncomfortable watching that.

That's a crazy play.

It's a crazy play. I watched There's a really funny clip of Draymond Green was lying on the floor, and they just simply were like, That's enough out of Draymond, and play continued. And the teams exchanged possession three or four times before the play stopped. The Golden State Warriors had the ball, and they're dribbling it up the course, and one of their players is just lying half dead. Across sports, imagine To talk about a Bruins moment, Gregory Campbell, when he was on the Bruins, and the league favored them, blocks his shot, breaks his foot, continues to play, and that moment is remembered. It is immortalized because he stayed out there, and he gritted it out, and he kept going. And now you have that moment forever. But what if after the first block shot, they were like, Oh, no, no, no, no, Freezy. Freezy, do we have the free... And it's a goalie.

I know. Matty, if you want to bring this up, this is after the official blew the play dead. This is how pissed the Bruins were coming up to the officials being like, What the fuck did you just do? Why did you stop play? And they were right to question the whole situation. Okay.

This picture is so funny to me.

Pat Maroon being wrong is hilarious.

I need Patrick Maroon. That's just his permanent face. I need Patrick Maroon to score a big goal in these playoffs because he's just a skating mouth. That's all he does. He patrols the red line and he complains to the officials. Do you see a letter?

No.

This The guy talks to the refs more than any captain or assistant in the National Hockey League. No one spends more. How many minutes does he play a game? Twelve? Maybe? No one talks to the refs more than this guy.

I didn't expect this to be a dump on Pat Maru.

It's not a dump on him. I'm accurately portraying every shift ends and he's talking to someone. This guy is the league's greatest conversationalist.

If he was a leaf, they would start calling penalties against him.

Oh, yeah.

Like that's what Michael Bunting did.

Oh, no. They just send Dan Kelly over to duct tape his head, and it'd be fine.

It'd be okay. Pat Maroon knows how to win.

He does know how to win.

He does know how to win.

And a lot of it is politic and A lot of it is complaining and stating your case to the officials. The Bruins, to me, if I'm the ref, after enough years of this, especially in the playoffs, it's a select group of guys who get to do payoff games, and he's in all of them over the last half of the decade. If I'm one of the refs that has done so many games with Patrick Maroon, isn't there a little bit of a, what is it now, Pat? There's got to be a little bit of What is it now, Pat? I think if any other Bruin goes over and complains, they're like, Oh, I'll listen to you. But what is it now, Pat? What can I help you with this time, Pat?

I'm curious to see if Brad Marshan can suit up for game number six. I know that'll be an X-Factor for the Bruins, but it's such a tighter series than I anticipated. Yeah. Either team could come out of this.

I'm upset, though, with one thing with that series.

Paul Maurice doesn't get to talk between periods.

Not that. No. It's the Bruins and Panthers media. They're not doing a good enough job riding for their teams. What? They're not cape-bating like the oilers' Knux are.

Oh, these playoffs, I'm never going to feel I'm sad for being very open about my biases ever again.

Because at least you're open about them.

You listen to this show knowing exactly who I am and who I cheer for. There's a lot of liars out there.

A lot of liars out there. I want I would say the Boston media has been very tame. Florida media have been very tame.

I think you're dead wrong.

Oh, they've been nothing on the Knux at boilers. What have you seen in Boston and Florida, really, that's been that bad?

There's one reporter inIn particular, he is the Minister of Propagand. I don't want to call them out directly.

Okay. Well, there's probably 10 on each. If you asked anybody in the Vancouver media, Sussi, there's no way he should have ever been suspended. If you ask anyone in the Edmondson media, they're like, Should be five games, which is how you know that the Department of Player Safety got it relatively right because both sides hate it.

Do you know how out of control you have to be for me to be like, You know what? Paris is on it. Yeah.

You're making making me think Paris might have this.