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I still have no idea who Washington is booing

That’s Washington’s best period of the series marred by gooning about…a clear tripping penalty?? Like of all the things that’s the one? This going after a guy after a goal too is the epitome of rat shit. I have no problem with the elbow to cuylle a few games ago. Ok he got you in the beans, you can give him a shot, fair is fair. But what the hell is this bs lol

Should be slightly more challenging as I think Washington is getting a couple D back, will be an interesting one

No reason we can’t sweep them but also you’d have to imagine the caps get one at home. Still, would love to take care of business here and go home

To be fair to the Leafs, they had plenty of chances and the post stopped them from tying it last night. On top of that, Marchand is having the most ridiculous series I’ve ever seen him play. Actually I don’t know where I was going there, fuck those guys

We also get called for decking guys in front too to be fair

This is a gift game because we are not playing up to Washington’s level tonight but that doesn’t matter I’ll take the win if we can get there

We are barely trying this period and still no life. Getting outworked

That’s another soft fucking call. It’s bullshit

We are crushing this team on the powerplay, shorthand, and 5v5.

Trochek a viable conn smythe candidate right now.

4 penalties halfway through the game is not a recipe for success

Just ban tall players with arms then, idk. Ban body checking. What’s he supposed to do in the playoffs? Not hit him? Arms were down elbows down it’s as clean as they come. Maybe a bit late if we’re nitpicking.

That’s fucking crazy

To be honest I’m hoping that we don’t need to whine about the refereeing again which has been atrocious this series so far, for both teams

Almost a must win given that Carolina is going to sweep the isles, need to keep our rest advantage.

Yep, he’s who you want against Carolina, not washington.

I watched this game, Dallas looks like shit I have no idea why they are the first seed. Puts some perspective on how blessed we are every game to watch the Rangers almost never lose control of the puck unless they dump it or shoot it.

Panarin weighs 150 while wet, the only thing he hurt was oshie’s feelings.

To be fair at his age and career, I’d only want that too

Made a difference tonight. DeSmith looked like shit

There’s what Bob did there and then there’s the shitshow of goaltending out west lol

3 pts, hits, everything, amazing so far, keep it up kid

Amazing performance by the team again, but this time it’s the way they overcame this atrocious refereeing. I love this game, have watched it all my life, have watched most playoff games all my life. Richie and I have been harping on this all year - this is the absolute worst year for hockey refereeing EVER. By a huge margin. Honestly it impacts the ability to enjoy the game because you have no idea what’s allowed and not allowed on a night to night basis. It goes both ways, tonight and last game were not the caps got away with murder type things. Absolutely not - the officiating has been terrible both ways, both games, and it’s routine this year. It’s so sad because it overcomes a gutsy performance by the team, an amazing performance by Mika, and all we will be remembering this game by is when Panarin had to reverse hit Oshie to prevent the fifth instance of violence this evening, and happened to knock him out of the game. It’s sad. Inconsistent refereeing is what leads to games like soccer where half the game is about playing the referee and you think “oh, that won’t happen in hockey.” It can, and that’s exactly what tonight was, just two teams trying to game powerplay out of referees and then being dirty when they can. And the referees let both teams get away with it. Frustrating.

Just do the same thing and be physical - they are small, we are tall