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Penguins coach blasts Rangers counterpart for accusing Pittsburgh star of diving, David Shoalts reports ...Read the full article

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  1. Ron Hartlen from Canada writes: Crosby - great player. Great players always draw penalties by plodders.
    Rangers - whiners.
    Shanahan - used to be a class act.
    Sather - most overrated GM in the history of the league.
  2. D M from Canada writes: What a classless act by Renney. For complaining about the diving? Partly. But mostly because if you're going to throw out accusations, then have the balls to back them up, or else apologize. Instead, we get this pile of krap. We all know he was calling Crosby a diver. Bet he saw the video replay, then realized he was wrong. Be a man and say you were wrong.
  3. R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: In my opinion, Shanahan's status as "class act" has been suspect since he and Don Cherry tried to team up on a seventeen year old phenom in Junior to label him a "hot dog" based on his talent before his first NHL game....

    Must be tough being washed up...

    Yes, of course, the Rangers are going to try off ice tactics to attempt get Crosby off his game... Pathetic whiners!

    Cheers.
  4. Rob Hal from Sudbury, writes: In fans eyes, there`s always this imaginary line between "great players drawing penalties" an "cheap players taking a dive"... most of the time, they`re one and the same.
  5. steve allan from Welland, Ontario, Canada writes: Brendan Shanahan has never impressed me with his hockey skills and even less so with his brain. This guy is on the competition committee which has been front and centre in trying to improve the game yet he allows himself this very dumb comment --

    "it was a weak call at that time of the game."

    This is the same guy who has been saying the refs should call the game the same way from beginning to end and now he's changing his mind? Hypocrisy writ large!
  6. bob saunders from Canada writes: Therein lies the problem. After the straka penalty there were two occasions where the penguins should have been penalized under the rules but were not. Be consistent that all anyone can ask of the refs. Call all players the same at anytime during the game, or let it go for eveyone equally.
  7. dar cullihall from Rocky Harbour, Canada writes: This is still the only game I know where the referee can determine the outcome of a game. Notice how Montreal managed to tie the Flyers in their home opener Thursday night? By having the referee interfere with a rather weak call. How did Pittsburgh manage the go-ahead goal over the Rangers? By having the referee, again, make a laughable call. So, that is just two examples where the referee has played an important role in determining the outcome. Sad, but it is another reason why more and more 'fans' are seeing a touch of WWFNHL being played out on the ice. Was a time when I would stay up until 2:30 am. or so to watch those from the western teams play. Now? Well, I just think the outcomes are predictable, because of the referees. I would bet the hockey world wants a Pittsburgh-Montreal match-up in the eastern conference. Let's see what they get. Perhaps I'm seeing it wrongly. Just wish I could convince myself that everything is done fairly and the referees have no favourites. But those damn 5 on 3 situations make the game such a joke, don't you think?
  8. Lane Myers from Canada writes: The Rangers blew a three goal lead and all Renney can do is complain about one call made by the referee. What a whiner.
  9. R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: Yes, hockey is fixed! The referees are all paid off!

    The Leafs would win every year if it weren't for those facts...

    Poor Brendan Shanahan and his team of has beens... The referees must be against them too !

    Man, who let these whiners out ?
  10. The Radish from London, Canada writes: First Shanahan - he's one of the greatest team players in the game. The guy will stand up for a teammate no matter what, he always has, physically and verbally. When he was a player rep in St. Louis he invited Bettman outside to repeat some uncomplimentary comments Bettman made about the Blues during a meeting.

    The suggestion that refs are biased and that the NHL's officiating is worse than that in other sports is wrong. I've seen bad calls in every sport. NHL officiating isn't perfect and there is room for improvement but I think most of the refs do a pretty good job. Hockey is a very fast game both in terms of the actual play and in the flow of the game. Calls will get missed sometimes considering the pace, and when they have, I've never perceived a bias. It's unfortunate when a call/non-call obviously effects the outcome of a game but as I said, it happens in all sports. Teams have to win in spite of bad luck, injuries and sometimes bad calls, and citing any of those as reasons for a loss is just excuse-making.

    What's with this thing people have about the NHL and conspiracies? I've heard that the draft lottery was rigged when Pittsburgh got Crosby, it was rigged this year, Bettman blocked Burke from going to Toronto...you'd think the league was run by the Knights Templar the way people go on.

    Oh, well. Go Pens & Habs.
  11. kevin mcgee from modesto ca, United States writes: # 87 is agreat player and mr renney should be concerned about the rangers blowing a 3 goal lead and getting # 16 to concentrate on playing hockey i do not beleive that nhl referees are that stupid and are fully aware about phoney charges
  12. R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: These whacko conspiracy ideas that the referees are biased usually come from the fans, the coaches and the players of teams that have lost !

    Funny that you never see the winning fans, coaches or players complaining about the referees....

    Wonder why that is ?
  13. Tom Sawyer from Canada writes: nice to see the Ranger's execs need to try to employ distraction like their star rat Avery rather than do their talking with their play on the ice. But when you face the world's best player and his support crew, I guess you do what you can. Penguins in Five.
  14. paddy o'reilly from Canada writes: The officiating is certainly glaringly inconsistent. Marginal calls ignored at one end become game breaking calls at the other. . . or series ending in the case of Washington.

    I don't assume a conspiracy but ya gotta wonder with what Detroit gets away with. Team Euro interferes, pics, hooks, and has 2 guys whose sole purpose is to stand in the crease with their big asses and elbows in the goalies face. How often do they get called? About 1/4 the number for every other team. The multiple overlapping 3 on 5's in their game against the Avs was ridiculous.

    Brendan Shanahan is a credit to the game.. . . always has been.
  15. M Liggins from Perth, Canada writes: Tom Sawyer from Canada writes: But when you face the world's best player and his support crew

    Tom, I wasn't aware New York were playing Ovechkin and the capitals.....
  16. tom h from Edmonton, Canada writes: Looks like Sean Avery has taught most of the Rangers organization to act like idiots.
  17. John Stanton from Canada writes: There must be time delay video in Perth...Capitals are out!! ha ha. Crosby is a CANADIAN captain and cream of the crop.

    I get sick of seeing all the whining about refereeing. They should employ rules as in rugby. ANY whining about the reffing, immediate penalty. That would shut the yapping.
  18. Yertu Damkule from Canada writes: yeah, dar, good point. i mean, if the two best teams in the conference end up making the conf. finals, it's definitely because the league wants that matchup. it'd have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they were, uh, the two best teams in the East all season. some people are always going to look for an excuse, and the easiest one is usually the officiating. it's much easier to deal with a loss as a fan if you can blame some outside force or hackneyed conspiracy theory. i also love the notion that crosby dives or whines...um, have any of you expousing that theory ever actually watched a game live (i.e. at the arena)? those that have probably have a better understanding of the kind of BS guys like crosby (& malkin, ovie, jagr, etc) have to put up with, the little slashes, hooks, holds, punches, face-washes all game long. or the fact that maybe, just maybe, those 'divers' are just simply *BETTER* and the guys defending him don't have much choice but to commit a penalty to slow him down. as for the straka interference call - yeah, it may not have been the most egregious penalty, but the fact is, he interefered with him using his stick after he was beaten - twice - and the call was made before the puck was poked away. what the ref saw was a beaten defender (straka) using his stick to slow up crosby, on what was shaping up to be a 2-on-1 break. i didn't see crosby embellish the call at all, and those who say he did obviously haven't laced up a pair of skates in a while, if ever. going full bore like that, it doesn't take much to throw someone off-stride, which is what straka did. it's not like crosby went down, he was just trying to fight through it. seems like the real reason people are upset is that the play was broken up, rendering the interference moot (since it broke up what became a non-play), and the assumption seems to be that since there was no play, there was no need to make the call.

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