Here is John Dellapina's take at the Blueshirts Blog on the Straka interference call..."...far be it for me to rail against Don Koharski and Kelly Sutherland for the interference call on Martin Straka with 3:20 left. But can we dispense with the charade that Sidney Crosby doesn’t embellish minor fouls against him to draw penalties? And was it really a coincidence that only two penalties were called in the last 28:51 of last night’s game and both were “drawn” by Crosby?
Also, while it is certainly true that the Rangers played a brutal Game 1, that doesn’t mean that a blown call (if it was blown) that late in a tied game isn’t pivotal.
Or, as a Toronto writer who happened down to our side of the press box pointed out to me when he asked what the Rangers’ reaction to the call was and I said that they didn’t deserve to win: “Yeah, but did the other guys?”
Fact is, this was an up-for-grabs game between two teams that didn’t play close to their best hockey last night. Two teams that figure to play much better, each requiring the other to raise its level of play to win the desperate and quickly-finished race to four wins that will advance one to the Eastern Conference Finals.
So when it’s 4-4 with less than four minutes left and you’ve pretty much pocketed the whistles to that point, shouldn’t it be a clear infraction that causes physical harm or precludes a scoring chance that finally merits a manpower advantage?"
...while I refuse to blame the refs for losing the game for the Rangers, especially when they blow a 3-0 lead, I love Dellapina's take on it.
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