More Whine and Cheese with the Bruins.

While I am on the subject of whining Bruin's fans and bad calls by referees I HAVE to mention the diving penalty that Steve Downey of Tampa Bay got in a playoff game. Tampa Bay was playing Boston at the time. Downey got his head smacked into the glass from a cheap hit by a Boston player. The Boston player got a penalty and the referee gave Downey a penalty for diving.

Downey had trouble getting up after the hit. He had trouble skating to the bench. He never returned to the game because of the after effects of the illegal hit. Yet the referee gave him a diving penalty. THAT was bloody ridiculous. Bruins fans were amazingly quiet about bad referee calls then.

One of the TSN announcers, god I hate having to watch hockey on TSN, made the comment that Downie's reputation preceded him. That struck me as a monumentally idiotic thing to say. Downie has a reputation for being too aggressive. In the past he has been given some hefty suspensions for being too violent. He does NOT have a reputation for diving. How his reputation for being too physical has anything to do with a diving call is beyond me ... unless you REALLY REALLY stretch reality and then some. But I digress.