Collected Thoughts

Heh. The officiating was draconian yesterday, but you know what, I didn't mind, because it was consistent. I get very ticked off at bad or lopsided officiating, and that goes even when it's my team that benefits. Call an even, refs, ok?

But yesterday, it was consistent. I only saw two calls missed, one on the Sharks, one on the Blues. The Blues - led by asshead Chris Pronger - have some team tactics that include holding onto opposing plyers' sticks longer than most. It wasn't called at all in game one, but even the network announcers noticed it, and wondered why. Yesterday, they called it every time they saw it, which meant Pronger alone took eight minutes in penalty time in just the first period.

So as long as the zebras call it for both sides, I'm fine with it.

I love your goalie, by the way, and always have. He's brilliant. I saw some of the clips from yesterday's game; it looked as if his defense was flat. They let him down a bit. Nabokov got sick and tired of that happening to him last year, and said so, loudly. The result was a much tighter defense in the crease this year, and fewer opposing breakaways.