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Guy Boucher feels Game 6 ref has been ‘lopsided’ in favor of Bruins 05.25.11 at 2:02 pm ET
By DJ Bean

TAMPA — Guy Boucher is aware of a lot of things, a long list that even includes phantom Tim Thomas quotes. Given that, it should come as no surprise that he is aware that Eric Furlatt, one of the referees for Wednesday’s Game 6, has been much nicer to the Bruins this postseason than he has been to the Lightning.

The Lightning coach — without mentioning Furlatt by name — noted on Wednesday that Furlatt has called 24 penalties against Tampa, as opposed to nine against Boston during the playoffs.

“Twenty-four to nine against, right?” Boucher said when asked if Furlatt’s officiating has been lopsided. “Yes, I’m aware of it. Very aware of it. Very, very aware of it. It has been part of our discussions quite a few times in the last games we did have that particular ref, and it is lopsided.

“The only thing we can control is what we do on the ice and hope that things will be fair like it is with everybody else.”

Furlatt has only officiated one game this series, which was Game 2. In that contest, eight penalties were called on the Lightning, and six were called on the Bruins.

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  • Scott

    really? 8 penalties to six in the one game they played each other and Guy ‘oh god my face’ Boucher complains about the refs?

    24 to 9? any mention of the previous games he ref’d the two teams? any mention of the type of game? No, just the overall number.

    If I’m the ref I take this as insulting and generalizing, and proceed to bend ‘oh god my face’ over and end his f’n season.

    But, seeing as how 99% of the NHL refs call games. Furlatt will be sad that ‘oh god my face’ doesnt like him, and try to make it up to him by calling phantom high sticking or ticky tack goaltender interference calls 3 feet outside the crease.

  • brian

    I just like how the quote was written with Guy’s accent:

    “things will be AIR like it is with everybody else.”

  • http://www.massholesports.com MassholeSports

    Wow, Tim Thomas is in his head. The officials are in his head. This guy is very mentally fragile…and he has a weird looking scar on the side of his face.

  • der

    The refs have been in Tampa’s favor…

  • Richie

    Last nights game was an absolute joke by the officials! They were so clearly in Tampa’s favor that it is disgusting! The calls on Peverley and Seidenberg that both led to Tampa goals were absolutely ridiculous! Seidenberg was called for a cross check in front of his net, and he hardly even touched the guy, cross checks by defensemen happen on every single play in front of the net when guys are battling and they called it because the Bruins had 4 straight power plays before! I hate how NHL referees feel that the penalties have to be even, THEY DON’T, if one team is undisciplined and one team isn’t, then it should be fine if they call em’ on one team! All the penalties to Tampa in the first 2 periods were legitimate, none of the ones on Boston were! The call on Lecavlier in the third was a horrible call as well! I dislike bad calls on opposing teams as well, because if they do that you know they are gonna call anything on anyone! NHL referees need to just shutup, stay out of the way, and only call penalties on an actual penalty, which should be far less than they are calling! The call on Peverley was an absolute embarassment, he literally did NOTHING to earn a penalty, all he did was attempt to go in on a forecheck and slightly ran into a Tampa player and was called for interference, which led to another Tampa goal! So the referees won the game for the Lighting last night, and Boston’s special teams were to blame as well obviously! Boucher is a complete moron, his team has been getting the favorable calls, not the Bruins! His team is undisciplined (Downey is an absolute scumbag, one of the dirtiest players in the NHL) that is why they have been shorthanded a lot more than the Bruins, that’s it you whiney baby! I’m surprised Claude didn’t lose his mind last night, I would have!

  • Richie

    NHL referees are becoming almost as bad as NBA referees, they are clearly some of the worst in all of pro sports! And god I would love to see Milan Lucic or Zdeno Chara or anyone on the Bruins just take out Downey with a clean hit, that guy is completely unlikeable and the type of dirty player like Matt Cooke who actually likes to try and severely hurt people! Him and Matt Cooke are 2 guys who I would not feel any sympathy for if they had really serious injuries, because they would have it coming (especially Cooke)! He even looks like a lowlife just like Matt Cooke does, those type of guys that you just can so easily see they are scum!

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