Was it just us or...

Did something seem awry in that Montreal - Philly game? I am still not clear on all these rules about allowing goals and disallowing goals, but seems to me, in a hockey game, where the object is to use your hockey stick to pass, handle and score on the nets on opposite sides of the rink's surface that using your hand to redirect a shot which changes the momentum of the game seems fishy.

It seems to me that the league has for quite some time opposed the advancement of the Habs. Even listening to the announcers on CBC, you'd think they would naturally root for the Canadian team in a game, not so. The Montreal Canadiens are the outcasts of the Canadian teams. Toronto has lost by such severe scores to the likes of the Florida Panthers but still they are cheered by the announcers. Its a shame that a team from Quebec does not receive the same kind of respect. Toronto is still sore about being losers for the last 40 years, but still.

I am not French Canadian and I like the Habs, the fans agressively defend their team. Much more than I can say for several other hockey teams. When tampa won the cup a couple years back, was anyone watching? Even Detroit fans are diminishing. Maybe they should put in a new rule, In order for a city to have a hockey team there must be a certain average recorded snowfall. Yanks in the southern states don't care about hockey, they are too busy cooking roadkill and playing banjos to worry.

As for that goal "Richards got credit for his fourth goal of the playoffs when he put up his left hand as Umberger’s shot sailed past him and Price. A video review upheld the goal.
'I tried to catch it and luckily my hand-eye is terrible,' Richards said. 'It went right off my shoulder and then I turned around for the rebound and it went in the net. That was the break we needed, I think.' " To credit Richards with the goal is a great insult to hockey and especially the die hard fans of Montreal. On one hand, the league is saying that, dumb luck on the part of Richards that he was standing where he was, pilon in front of the net and Umberger's shot bounced off him, in which case why don't they credit goalies with points when the puck hits their pads and go in. OR on the other hand, the league is spitting in the face of Montreal in saying that even though the puck was redirected consiously, therefore an illegal goal, but we hate you so much that we'll allow it anyways. I have this message for the wigs in Toronto (***explitave deleted)