B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!!!

Edmonton Oilers coach Craig MacTavish was fined $10,000 US Saturday by
the NHL for criticizing referee Mick McGeough for a blown call in the Oilers'
3-2 home loss to the Dallas Stars on Friday night.


"The NHL
acknowledges the fact that referee Mick McGeough made the wrong call on a play
late in the game, which he later admitted to the media following the game,"
director of hockey operations Colin Campbell said in a release.
"While the
NHL regrets the missed call, Craig MacTavish's comments after the game regarding
the call were totally inappropriate and crossed the line."
McGeough waved off
what would have been a game-tying goal by the Oilers' Ales Hemsky with 4.1
seconds left. The referee blew his whistle just before Hemsky put the puck in
the net after deciding Edmonton centre Shawn Horcoff had made a glove pass off
the preceding faceoff. Replays, though, showed no such infraction.
Speaking
to reporters after the game, MacTavish lambasted McGeough for the call and for
delivering it in the referee's familiar animated fashion.
"It was a retarded
call," MacTavish snapped. "There is no other explanation for it. I know he is a
veteran official and at times I have found his antics humorous. But if this is
the product of that, there is a problem.
"It was a ridiculous call. I had no
idea what he had called. Nobody saw the hand pass on the play because quite
clearly there wasn't one. It's beyond reason.
"He should be
suspended."
McGeough's ruling also inflamed the Edmonton crowd, which
littered the ice with debris, some directed at the officiating crew as it headed
for its dressing room.

FACK!!!
"It was a retarded call."
What the hell did he say wrong? It's facking true!!! Shouldn't Magoo get fined? He lost us a game!! We definately would have won...but nooo...that fucking bastard..! I swear he had a thing against the Oilers! He called it right away...without even looking! OPEN YOUR FRICKIN EYES BASTARD!!
Whatever! I'm glad someone had the guts to badmouth the goo. That was the most fucked up game ever! First the refs don't call the first Dallas goal which should have been goalie interference! And they call the Edm goal which was not a glove pass!

"It was a blown call on my part," McGeough said after the game. "It was poor judgment on my part. I thought he had his hand on the puck on the faceoff but it was his stick. My judgment was poor on the play."

Poor judgement my ass!