Last night the Wild lost a scoreless tie in a 2 round shootout to the Calgary Flames. There was contraversy in the 1st period after an apparant goal on a Mark Parrish tip was called back because it was played by a high stick. There really haven't been any clear replays as to why this was called back, this is the only one that's shown it's even possible that Parrish played the puck with a high stick. (http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=201845&hubname=nhl, click highlights under "Related info"). All the other views seem to support it should've counted, but in a post game interview even Parrish conceded the call was close, but given the replays I don't see how the refs found a way to call this goal back.
That wasn't the only source of contraversy, Calgary couldn't stay on their feet, and Referees Justin St. Pierre and Marc Joanette saw fit to reward this diving behavior with pathetic penalties on Kim Johnssonn and Brent Burns. Meanwhile Calgary got away with more holding the sticks than I could count.
Despite all of this, based on what was written in the papers it seems the team is farily content with the result. They did play very well, and the regulation tie was enough to put them in the playoffs after Colorado's loss to Vancouver about an hour later. The Wild haven't been beaten in Regulation in 10 straight games and they rematch the Flames on Thursday night.
http://www.twincities.com/wild/ci_5536099
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