Per Mike Russo of the Star-Tribune, another member of the Wild’s defensive corp is nursing an injury:
Things just got a whole lot worse for the Wild as it was revealed defenseman Martin Skoula has a ”sore leg.” He’s considered possible for tomorrow.
I’m sure there will be a lot of “they’re better without him” jokes, but that’s selling him way to short. As Russo says…
If Skoula’s out, the Wild is in bigtime trouble. It’s that simple. If the defensemen for the rest of the series are Kim Johnsson, Brent Burns, Petteri Nummelin, Keith Carney, Sean Hill and Erik Reitz, who was officially recalled on an emergency basis today (doesn’t count toward one of the four callups), the Wild is in bigtime trouble.
In related Skoula news, Joe found a nice photo of that flagrant crosscheck Skoula put on Jones last night. I’m still not jumping on the “biased-ref” bandwagon, but that was a rather large non-call…
Considering that the second goal was scored on a power-play set up by an imaginary penalty on Bouchard, I wouldn’t complain too much.
I thought there were several non-calls on both teams.
There were several non calls, the refs were letting them play, though there was a blatant trip by an avs player on Nummelin in the third which they didn’t call, even though the avs player knew it…so stop moaning about it.
ok, this all makes sense. I post at MHH that I didn’t think the officiating was that bad, and I get slammed by people who think the Avs got screwed. I post here that I didn’t think the officiating was that bad, and I get slammed by people who think the Wild got screwed.
I give up.
Gotta love the playoffs, eh DD
I just think the officiation was brutal at both ends, not that they were just letting them play.
But nonetheless, hopefully Skoula isn’t seriously injured but…well…I’m not crying about it…
Officiation? Is that even a word? Let’s pretend it is.
I thought it was pretty bad overall. Both sides.
And that non-call on the cross-check was really bad. Had Jones not been on the ice, the puck would have gone in, and he wouldn’t have kicked it in…
I still love you, Drafty.
Smooches Drafty!
DD burnin tha bridges to nowhere!
Still one of my all-time favorite comments from someone at the Can, “Come on Skoula, at least hit him with your purse.”