Originally Posted by
Stay-Puft
On the 2nd Tidball-Emmerson tilt, I would have given the edge to Tidball. Both connected a couple, but Tidball's, I think, were better shots. He did stir it up a little after the 2nd with a "shhhhh" motion with his finger and did start talking smack to the fans in the stands behind the penalty box, plus kept egging them on.
I didn't see what started Flatt's major, but did see a video replay of it on the news this morning. The clip showed Flatt throwing haymakers to Kyle Peters, all 5'7" of him, while Peters still had his gloves on, helmet on, stick in his hand, while trying to cover up ("turtleing"). Yet Flatt had hold of his jersey and was just throwing away. Report I heard from a fan right in front, was that he basically jumped Peters. Maybe Flatt felt left out of the misconducts.
By the way, I agree with HAF. The officiating last night was probably one of the worst games I have seen in the WHL in some time. Stevenson's fighting major and misconduct was a prime example. It started along the board in front of me. Stevenson put a cross-check on the guy into the boards, was looking down at the puck when his jersey starts to get pulled over his head. In my opinion, clear instigating penalty. Fighting was not mutual, but defensive. Then Bader for Saskatoon comes over and slaps the Blade fighter on his hip pocket at the blue line on his way across the ice to the penalty box for congratulations, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE REF before they were called over to pick up the mess! Correct me if I am wrong, but that should have been a misconduct on Bader. However, Stevenson got 5 for fighting and a 10 minute misconduct. Absolutely no idea what the 10 minute was for. No punches were thrown at the end. I have not been too impressed with the officiating so far this year, way too inconsistent.
Good luck tonight boys. Keep up the hard work and it will pay off.