It is what it is anymore with the NHL. I didn't even bother watching Game 6. Murray is just ridiculous honestly. Some of the saves he made, amazing and two cups as a Rookie? Kid is going places. That's the plus side. Imagine Nashville with Murray. Man, what a powerhouse.
Yeah, Crosby getting the Conn Smythe over Murray or Malkin is even more proof of bullshit.
People have been like "don't bitch about the refs...the rules are the rules. And Nashville was 0-5 on the powerplay", and yeah, that's fair. But I don't know how anybody could dispute the two goals Nashville had taken off the board having a major impact. As far as "rules being rules", that first goal in game 1 was ruled a goal on the ice. The rulebook says you can't overturn the ruling on the ice without conclusive evidence proving the call was wrong. After about a million looks at the play, there STILL isn't conclusive proof that Forsberg's blade lifted off the ice. And yet...no goal.
Then game 6, ok, the ref has to blow the whistle when he loses sight of the puck. But he was in such a bad position to see what was going on in front of the net, I don't know why he wouldn't have waited the one second it would have taken for him to get closer behind the net. As for the impact of that call...Hornqvist didn't score the Pens go ahead goal until there was 1:43 left in the 3rd. If the Preds had been up 1-0 (as they should have been), Murray is pulled from his net before that Hornqvist goal ever happens. So, who knows how that sequence would have played out.
So, yeah..."don't cry about the refs". Yeah, I get it. But how in the hell can anybody deny that Game 1 and Game 6 were drastically affected by what turned out to be bad calls that benefited Pittsburgh? At the very least, you have to acknowledge that the Pens were incredibly fortunate to win those two games.
I'm trying not to be a sore loser, man. And Pens fans have countered with "the ref called zero penalties on Nashville in game 6". But getting goals taken away is just different. And those were two critical ones that just made things easier for Pittsburgh.