- With about three minutes left in the second period of a game that Tampa Bay was leading over Pittsburgh, the referee called a two minute penalty against the Lightning's Ryan Malone for elbowing Max Talbot who was skating with the puck along the Tampa Bay blueline.

Problem is that Greg Malone didn't elbow Talbot. His shoulder clearly hit Talbot's shoulder which separated the latter from the puck. It was a bodycheck.

A perfectly legal bodycheck. A perfectly well executed bodycheck.

It's bad enough that they are missing calls left and right, but do they have to start inventing penalties too?

Because it's one thing to miss a call, it's quite another when you start calling penalties for things that didn't happen.

Also, I liked it better when refs and linesmen had their names on the back of their sweaters.



Photo: Bruce Hood and Bryan Lewis NHL referee sweaters.

- Talk about pressure. How would you like to be Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo today?

After jumping out to a 3-0 series lead against Chicago, the Canucks looked poised to finally win a playoff series against the Hawks. Fast forward a week later and we are headed to a game 7 in Vancouver.

A big game from Henrik and Daniel Sedin would also go a long way to help relieve some of the pressure on the Vancouver goalie.