Hossa's disallowed goal. Borrowed from HighlyEssential.com

Nobody is going to argue that Stevie Wonder would have done a better job calling the Wings/Ducks game on Tuesday.  Even Ducks fans can’t argue that they were handed the game on a silver platter by that blind, sorry excuse for a referee, Brad Watson.  There’s enough commentary out there about how silly it was, I don’t need to reiterate it here.

What I do need to stress is that this is not the first time that the Wings (or any other team for that matter) have been robbed of a game because of one referee’s bad judgement.  Why isn’t the NHL talking about this?  Do they not see this as a problem?  What the league needs is a checks and balances system so that the entire game doesn’t fall on one call.  What makes it even worse is this:  Under Rule 78.5 per the Official NHL Rules, an instance of a disallowed goal is:

(xii) When the Referee deems the play has been stopped, even if he had not physically had the opportunity to stop play by blowing his whistle.

So even if a referee doesn’t really blow the whistle, but looks like they’re going to, a goal can be disallowed.  It’s a slippery slope they’re on with this rule, and I sure hope that by the start of the next season this rule gets looked at.

In the meantime, the Wings and Ducks face off at 10:30 tonight for Game 4, and I’ll be watching.  I expect the same “early whistles” for Osgood this time, and if one of the Ducks players digs the puck out from under Ozzie’s glove and tosses it in the net, I better not see anybody pointing at the center line.

I thought this would make a nice first post.  Credit to http://www.manolith.com/2009/04/15/history-lesson-the-story-of-beer/

This is plasticwater.org.  At this point, I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it, but I’m sure it will have a lot to do with music, imagery, and other art, as that’s what I do.  I plan to upload a small representation of my graphic design portfolio at some point, as well as some sort of gateway to the music I write, compose, and play.

I’ll leave it at that for now, and see where it goes.