The End of a Dream
After kicking off our best player, it shouldn't be any surprise as to our playoff fate. Jack Attack crushed us 9-2, knocking us out of the competitive bracket, and dropping us into the recreational bracket for the recreational championship.
Is winning the recreational bracket like kissing your sister? I don't know, because A) I can't really say that I have kissed my sister and B) because we lost in a heartbreaker last night.
We dug ourselves into a 4-1 hole, before fighting back to tie it at 4. I had the game-tying goal, a surprising development considering I only scored two other goals all season. They scored, we tied, and with three to play we were tied at five.
It seems we can't play a game without controversy, and this game was no exception. After not calling a single penalty all game, the ref blew his whistle and called tripping after their top player fell down. They scored on the power play, got another goal when we were pressing our guys up to get the game tying goal, and scored an empty netter to ice the game.
Our guys were pissed off about he call, bitched and bitched at the ref, with one guy calling him a pansy, anti semite and awful ref until the ref called the game with about 20 seconds left due to being verbally abused.
Can someone explain this to me.
Including the playoffs, we played 12 games. Two of those games were called prematurely by the refs because our guys were yelling at the ref. I would be surprised if any other team had a game called because of yelling at the ref.
It was the same ref in each instance, and we had an incident with the ref making a call against us that killed us in another game, which we gave him an earful but didn't have the game called.
Is there anyone who believes that screaming at the ref, calling him names and questioning his ability to ref a game is helpful to the team? Am I crazy for thinking that if we yell at the ref in one game, he is not going to give us the benefit of the doubt in the next game?
At least time it was nearly the incident as last week. This time it was contained to the side of the court.
Is winning the recreational bracket like kissing your sister? I don't know, because A) I can't really say that I have kissed my sister and B) because we lost in a heartbreaker last night.
We dug ourselves into a 4-1 hole, before fighting back to tie it at 4. I had the game-tying goal, a surprising development considering I only scored two other goals all season. They scored, we tied, and with three to play we were tied at five.
It seems we can't play a game without controversy, and this game was no exception. After not calling a single penalty all game, the ref blew his whistle and called tripping after their top player fell down. They scored on the power play, got another goal when we were pressing our guys up to get the game tying goal, and scored an empty netter to ice the game.
Our guys were pissed off about he call, bitched and bitched at the ref, with one guy calling him a pansy, anti semite and awful ref until the ref called the game with about 20 seconds left due to being verbally abused.
Can someone explain this to me.
Including the playoffs, we played 12 games. Two of those games were called prematurely by the refs because our guys were yelling at the ref. I would be surprised if any other team had a game called because of yelling at the ref.
It was the same ref in each instance, and we had an incident with the ref making a call against us that killed us in another game, which we gave him an earful but didn't have the game called.
Is there anyone who believes that screaming at the ref, calling him names and questioning his ability to ref a game is helpful to the team? Am I crazy for thinking that if we yell at the ref in one game, he is not going to give us the benefit of the doubt in the next game?
At least time it was nearly the incident as last week. This time it was contained to the side of the court.
posted by Air Time at 8:59 AM
3 Comments:
it is still embarrassing and it really has to stop. bottom line, end of story, period.
it was killing me last night, too, and you know by what i said to you after the game (that we need to switch leagues) that i had enough. i even calmly said to the ref at one point before a face-off that we're counting on him to make sure guys don't get hurt. if i were a ref and guys were yelling at me, i would make sure to "miss" the next infraction against them, too.
those refs are buffoons, but we look even worse whining about it and it's not something other teams don't notice either. this is a problem, much smaller than andre, but it is a problem that needs to be dealt with, nonetheless.
MO
Mo-
If you think switching leagues will solve the problem then you don't understand the problem.
Refs will always miss calls. The past three times we had these refs, our guys have bitched up an incredible storm.
During the Old Timers game we let the refs have an earfull over poorly called offsetting penalities in a tie game. Among other things, one of our players even complained about the other team swearing at a player of ours (technically against the rules but a call that should never be called. Also, it requires a warning before a penalty can be called.
Then we had the Andre incident, where Andre showed up the refs, and then, to cap it off last night, we had the pansy anti semite name calling.
This ref crew will never give us a call, but it is something we brought on ourselves, and will continue to ahppen for as long as the team hotheads continue to yell about every call and non call.
It doesn't matter if we are right or wrong, they have the whistle. As long as we continue to disrespect them, they will not make calls that benefit us. And switching leagues will only mean dealing with different refs who quickly learn to put their whistle away when JP is playing.
i completely agree that we brought this on ourselves (or more specifically, some of us brought this on ourselves). you may also be right that we will just get on the wrong side of those refs too. i know refs will alwaus miss some, but if they do at least call more penalties to begin with, that may make the whiners on our team satisfied enough to not pick fights with them. and we all know that our team should draw penalties, due to our relatively clean style of play. guys only get frustrated after a few missed calls.
be that as it may, right now we're still in this league. what can we do about the situation, because we are embarrassing ourselves, we are hurting ourselves, and it's getting worse? (if we're going to make scenes, we might as well bring back andre so we can at least be better sore losers)
MO
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