Vancouver Riots and the Disappointing, Disgusting, Shameful NHL

The NHL hasn't learned a thing in 17 years. They are still fixing games. In 1994 they fixed it for New York This year they fixed it for another eastern team this time Boston. The media say it is disappointing that the riot happened in Vancouver. I say it s disappointing that the Stanley Cup is fixed; that teams can benefit from non calls and inconsistent  completely confusing reffing. If unnecessary roughness is an offence why doesn't OHallaran call it? If slashing is an offence why doesn't WAlkom call it? If interference is an offence why does OHallaran only call it against Vancouver? Why is it only Vancouver players that get 4 games suspensions when other players get one game suspensions for the same or worse offences in the same annual series?

The media say its disgusting the riot happened in Vancouver. I say it is disgusting that the NHL suspended Rome for four games for a basic body check while Chara got nothing for what he did in Montreal by deliberating driving that Montreal player's head into the rink post. I say it is disgusting that other players get one game for what Rome got 4 games for . These riots will go on until the NHL gets investigated for Fraud. The fact the NHL gets away with this fraud is disgusting. I say it is disgusting the way OHallaran and Walkom can not call Boston for two handed slashes against Kesler (just before Boston got their first goal), or pushing Luongo into the net for a goal.

The media say it's a  shame the way the riot happened in Vancouver. I say it is a shame the way the NHL says during the regular season that this year they will give speed and skill the priority and then give way to goon squads during the playoffs; with inconsistent reffing, with confusing reffing, with non calls and illogical suspensions.

 Why have rules if you don't call them? Not calling rule breakers is fraudulent and shameful. It can lead to riots where ordinary people lose their sense of right and wrong and become idiots but this idiocy is grounded in the inconsistent non-calls and fraud of the NHL. THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN: NOTHING ELSE. Vancouver has shown with the Olympics and the Symphoney of Fire that crowds of over 100,000 people don't always lead to riots. Riots only happen after the NHL put their non calls  or inconsistent officiating on display where infractions dont get called and games are fixed. The NHL induces the idiocy we saw on the steeets of Vancouver. It is the NHL that must own up to their issues. Except the NHL governence people are in denial.

What we really need is a riot in the media about the NHL being a sham. ...and leading to riots

FRAUDULENT NHL REFEREEING NEEDS INVESTIGATION BY RCMP

This is a public complaint to the Vancouver City Police or the RCMP directed to the AG for the Province of British Columbia. The refereeing in game threeof the Stanley Cup final was atrocious.It was unprofessional

It was so bad that it resembled something fraudulent and deserving of an investigation for fraud by the police and I am publicly hereby making a compliant to the police to investigate the NHL for commercial fraud.

THere were at least 20 uncalled penalties that could have been made against Boston but were not. My heart goes out to Kesler who was slashed repeatedly and only after he retaliated were he and Chara both called for slashing. Or blind side fists to the head of Burrows that received no discipline. Chara could have been called at least a dozen times before for slashing Kesler alone. Kesler must have bruises up an down his leg from the slashes he suffered. Is the ref blind or biased? Is the game fixed? It is ok for Canucks to be slashed or charged or interfered with, or sticked with impunity.That makes the NHL refs blantantly fraudulent. Only after the Bruins were ahead by 4 goals that Walkom, the ref, starts to call Boston for penalities. The first three penalities were against the Canucks.

Rome gets suspended for 4 games by the NHL for interference. But Ference who tried to put an elbow throught Sedins head and seriously injure him with intent gets no punishment or suspension at all. He is still playing.The only reason Sedin didnt get hauled out on a stretcher was because he saw it coming and ducked partially anyway.

If the game had been properly reffed there would not have been any of that unprofessional garbage, especially for the Stanley Cup final, in the third period. It was not professionally or fairly or consistently reffed. It is obvious that the NHL CAN NOT govern themselves. You would have to as blind as the CBC to not see that lack of professionalism. It is time to have police involvement in the NHL officiating.

This has been obvious for years. Naslund was scarred by a non call that led to the Bertuzzi incident.

Or the 94 Stanley Cup series that was gifted to the NY Rangers by the biased, inconsistent fraudulent refereeing back then and now Game three in the 2011 series. Walkom did not do a good job last night at all and it deteriorated into the unprofessional garbage we saw in the third period. The NHL is not a professional league but a garbage league needing public investigation for FRAUD. It is time for the police to take a bite out of the NHL and with more then fingers but with charges for fraud. And please start with Mike Murphy who suspended Rome, one of the cleanest players in the NHL, for four games. Ference deserved more then four games for the elbow to Sedins head; an elbow intended to cause injury. Rome lacked any such intent. Or the uncalled blind side punch to Burrow's head which was intended to cause injury to Burrows. A Bertuzzi/Moore type punch that landed him in so much trouble but uncalled if it done to a Canuck.
The NHL is fixed.

Get a brain Murphy! You ruin peoples lives like Rome, a very clean player, while letting the NHL be fraudulent.You did what you did because you want Boston to win the cup Otherwise explain given what’s happened to Vancouver players in these playoffs — to Daniel Sedin, blasted into the boards from behind by San Jose’s Ben Eager, and to Aaron Rome, knocked out by a Jamie McGinn hit from behind the very next game — with no consequences to either of the aggressors, or the most recent elbow to Sedins head. If you are going to make calls , call them all consistently. This never happens when Vancouver is involved. Mr Barry Penner, the Attorney General,please listen. The NHL needs to be investigated for fraud. This NHL fraud will go on until Bettman is fired, there is some serious injury or blood or an investigation is conducted. This kind of reffing will obviously

lead to riots


Or better yet perhaps the Federal government should get the Senate to conduct a Royal Commission on the NHL: the lack of proper policing or governence in the NHL; i.e. they breach the Charter of Rights consistently, or they do not call all the penalties in a game. The reffing is inconsistent and confusing. Perhaps there should be some public controls on their inconsistent and biased "policing" of misconduct. How many crimes under the Criminal Code can we ignor? There have been four NHL suspensions this Stanley Cup series; three got one game; Rome got 4; Chara got none for the same offence??? That is not equal treatment under or before the law. That is a wrong that must be addressed publicly by a public body. The Canadian law must be upheld especially by a league that fixes games. I am tired of seeing the Canucks jobbed by the NHL
To the Honorable Barry Penner QC AG for BC barry.penner.mla@leg.bc.ca