NICE CALL

Have you been following the Conference Finals?

Me neither (I gots the "M" Fever)

However I did lock onto the Canes-Sabres overtime game last night and it ended in controversy.

Can you imagine that, a Game 6 overtime game in that rancid city ending in controversy?

Huh.

Although, last night the issue was what led up to the deciding goal, not the goal itself.

Quick rehash:

* Canes tie the game at one late in the third period.

* Brind'Amour almost wins it in regulation.

* Early in overtime Carolina's Doug Weight gets called for boarding.

That's where we need to yank the e-brake and go a little more in depth.

Doug Weight, who would never be included in even the most liberal group of back stabbing, cheap shot artists, is forechecking toward the left wing corner in the Sabre zone when he collides with Jason Pominville.

Who is Jason Pominville?

He's the gutless twit that went throughout the game trying to suck the refs into calling penalties every time a Cane breathed on him. He acted fraudulent, and pathetic all game long, and disappointingly (yet, in today's NHL climate, not surprisingly) the officiating bought it...Four times.

Yep, four of the five penalties the Hurricanes took were for "infractions" on Jason Pominville, including the fateful one in OT that head whiner Lindy Ruff referred to as, "A pretty cheap shot"

We'll staple that quote to the "No goal" one and order some camembert.

So there it was.

My biggest fear.

A playoff game decided by the ref(s) who were apparently buffaloed in Buffalo.

Look, you know me, I much prefer the "players decide it" approach, or at the very least, the "call-drawing jacklegs get ignored" approach when the game is on the line.

That's just me. The Boy.

Unfortunately I'm in the minority.

Because today Pomminville (that phony) is a hero in Tatonka-land, Weight is feeling shame, and the NHL has a shining example of how vigilant they are when it comes to calling "penalties" from puck drop to final buzzer in the neoteric NHL. (Although the Canes feel they stopped calling penalties as soon as Weight went in the box)

Thank god it was Game 6, not Game 7, eh!

You Go Canes!