NHL Refs Stink. Period.

Sour grapes may seem odd after your team has won, but I'm going to spit a few at you anyway.

As I said before herein and will undoubtedly say again too many times, National Hockey League referees are the absolute worst in professional sports. They tried to give game 7 of the Detroit vs. Anaheim series game to the formerly mighty Ducks, with an extended 5 on 3 but particularly with that weak goalie interference call which set up the Ducks second goal in period two. It was simply a terrible call. This after they disallowed Hossa's game tying goal in game 3.

I do not, however, agree with the Don Cherrys of the world either. I love ya, Grapes, but you're as capable of being wrong as anyone else, and you are in serious error when you say the refs should put away their whistles in the playoffs. That should not happen any more than umpires should stop calling balls and strikes and safe and out during the World Series or NFL officials quit calling holding in the Super Bowl. But they have to call actual penalties, and they surely have to allow real goals to count. They simply have to get better at their jobs.

That said, the upcoming Original Six meeting between the Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks should be fun, and hopefully less stressful. Ask me in about that 10 or 12 days.