dont forget when the preds were screwed in 2017 on a blown call. that was worse imo because the preds could have easily sat on that lead and forced game 7, or when doug gilmour was high sticked by gretzky, and the leafs were screwed out of going to the finals, or when the stars won the cup in '99 when brett hull scored, but at the time, when a player is in the crease the plays blown dead because of the clint malarchuk rule, but ofc next year the league changes the rules. the sabres were SCREWED that year, so we've seen worse, but people tend to forget history
the refs are well within their right to access a penalty based on severity of contact. in real time, it's not out of the realm of possibility that one of them saw something and at the huddle, okay, we have a dead guy on the ice, did anyone see something, ok it's done. despite marchessault's narrative, that he's killing the messenger, ray ferraro's take is as close we're going to get on that play. like what i just said above, we've seen worst calls in history that affected an outcome of a series, this one's up there, but it's not one of the worst, and you're not going to change my mind. i'll give it to cody eakin, he took it and didn't flip out, at least from what i saw, i think he was shocked more than anything, seeing a dead pavelski, probably thinking, did i seriously just do that? he's not a dirty player, at all, but i still think its the nazem kadri effect that caused the knee jerk reaction more than anything
inb4 rome/raymond, i dont care. we lost, get over it