Through 3 periods and overtime period the Grimsby Peach Kings and the Norwich Merchants had traded chances, a goal and some shoddy penalty calls. Then in the second overtime referee Tom Searle decided to play god, he whistled Norwich forward Chad Barclay for a marginal hooking call, and on the ensuing powerplay Josh Rogal scored the winner at 25:00 of overtime to give Grimsby the 2-1 win tying the best of seven series at a game a piece. It bothers me to no end that the OHA lets some of these referee's do playoff games, Norwich has played 12 playoff games on thier current run, out of the 12 games only 3 of them have had competent reffing. Prior to the Barclay call in the second overtime, Searle had whistled Norwich for 2 other marginal penalties in the first overtime. It would be nice to let the players decide a game of that magnitude and not the referee, I'm sure that Norwich head coach Dave Smith probably can't stop thinking he got screwed today and quite honestly I can't blame him. Lets hope the OHA can find a compentent ref for Game 3 in Grimsby Tuesday night, but I somehow doubt it, it's been like this for years why would they want it to change now.
GO MERCHANTS GO
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