Referees ruin games with some of the worst calls I've ever seen, here are 10 of the worst of all time.. Instrumentals by: LCS: @LCSprod Anarky:@anarky5589 for business inquiries contact: business.slapshot@gmail.com
I don’t care what sport is your favorite hockey, football, baseball, or basketball. The refs really need to be fined or suspended for making such horrible calls.
For the Gretzky-Gilmour no-call. Rules at the time assessed an automatic ejection for a high-stick that drew blood. Gretzky wouldn’t have been in the box, he would have been out of the game.
Keep in mind though the referee kerry Fraser didn’t actually see it….so he went to his linesmen for help….i think on e them saw it…problem was did they eat this one……Fraser did the right thing by asking for help….which linesman protected Gretzky is the next question…
@@danielsworld8832 No he wasn't. There's no way he didn't see that play. The puck was no where near Gretzky/Gilmour when the stick went up and Gilmour went down. There's not 1 ref/linesman that should have missed that. But, there was no way anybody was Kicking Gretzky out of the game, even in Toronto
Gotta be some AI-generated thing leveraging a voice. I am pretty sure that's possible. I've seen it on crime and cop videos that are posted on here a lot. Obvious mispronunciation in them. Either that, or this guy doesn't watch Hockey, which can't be, right? This IS a channel called Slapshot after all.
In Holland, football referees are required to meet the press afterwards to discuss the calls they made during the match. In rugby union, in referees are miked up and in real time you can hear the discussions with the booth and the players.
On the Brett Hull goal, the NHL justified it by saying that the puck entered the crease first, then Hull entered the crease and took a shot. The goalie made the initial save and the puck left the crease after the rebound, Hull got the puck back on his own rebound and shot it in the net. They said that getting your own rebound is not a loss of possession so Hull was fine still being in the crease even though the puck left the crease during the play. I am not saying I agree with that, but that was the justification they used. Is getting your own rebound a loss of possession... I don't know if the definition of losing possession goes into that kind of detail or not. It sounds like grasping at straws, but I honestly don't know. Anyway, the whole crease rule at that time was stupid anyway. I am glad that this incident made them change it back. There were so many goals called back that season because the tip of a skate was in the crease that didn't affect the play in an era where fans were begging for more goals.
This is correct. You were allowed to be in the crease with possession, so without Buffalo gaining possession, Hull technically never lost it. It was just a bad case of the spirit of the rule not matching the letter of the rule.
I'm honestly just tired of it being called controversial. He's barely in the crease while pivoting on his edges. Makes no contact with Hasek, and recovering a rebound. Think it's just butthurt Buffalo fans tbh.
correction, the high stick in LA vs Toronto was game 6. toronto just got beaten in game 7 and complains about it as though the high stick was in game 7. the flames one, given the camera angle, and the puck not being on the ice? i'm not actually convinced it went in. it would need to be clear from a directly top down view. which doesn't show it clearly fully over the line. therefore, no goal. the angle being used to show it as a goal i believe suffers from what is called the "parallax effect", which is a distortion in perception between what you see and actual positions
@@jeffreycairns767 fair enough. I didn't watch it. I wasn't even alive yet. I was going off a video from UrinatingTree that stated "Gretzky dominated them on their home ice." Which I took to mean that Toronto had imploded in a game 7, as they are want to do
Yes, and the Leafs would have won vs the Habs. LA didn't belong in the finals at all. It was a script from Bettman, just like he did with their new kid at Vegas. That guy needs to go, FAST.
As a Calgary albertan I can’t tell you how mad that non-goal call makes me I’ve literally been thinking about it since it happened 19 years ago, watched it live with my dad and we were screaming
2024 game 6 second round, McDavid (aka McSlashy), Captian of the Oilers cut the face of Canusks Captian Hughes . No call double two minute right in front the ref. To rub it in they made Hughes leave the ice for bleeding.
There was a call in game 5 between Canucks and Oilers that should make your next list. Pettersson of the Canucks clears the puck out of his end and an Oiler skates into the back of him and falls, Pettersson get called for charging and he was standing still. Nice to see your referees were the usual suspects. Better put Kelly Sutherland into that mix of referees.
@@theultra5482 A statue that hops to get the center of gravity of something is about to demolish it, maybe. Your feet cannot leave the ice in any manner when contact is being made. It is a cheap shot, a dangerous play, and clearly a an aspect of charging that needs to be removed from the game, hence why it is called a penalty practically every time it happens these days. The real truth was Petterson has zero physical presence. Instead of standing his ground and doing a reverse check or taking the body to make a play he jumped using the player's own momentum against him. IMO that type of play is equivalent to ducking a check near the boards. Its weak af. Petterson should be embarrassed by the performance he put up this post season. That was a great call , charging all day
@@dannyjackson5356 like be honest I think it was a bit of a weak call but by definition it is a penalty. Lots of worse ones are let go in the playoffs though.
The real reason why these Canadian teams got screwed over so many times is because gary bettman hates Canadian teams. He paid off the refs to make those terrible calls in those games.
It's not so much hate, it's about money. More people in America means more money for the league, or so Bettman thinks. The problem is, 2 of the top grossing teams are Canadian, which help pay for the American teams that don't earn their keep
The Preds vs Penguins call isn’t necessarily BAD, it’s just annoying. From the refs perspective it looked like he had covered the puck, and so he blew the whistle to stop the play.
@@jeffreycairns767depends on what you see and how the goalie reacts. Murray definitely locked up trying not to move thinking the puck was in his gear. The ref sees that and quick whistle. Other times when the goalie is still looking around or moving it will be a delayed whistle until the ref decides it is covered
@davidwaxter66 I get that but you have to admit, there have been many, many times that a whistle barely touches a goalie and the whistle blows while other times, it's clear the puck is smothered yet still takes 5+ seconds to blow it dead. The average whistle I agree with you but I'm not talking the average whistle.
I was born & raised in Edmonton so this is hard to say. *Gretzky clearly cut Gilmour, end of story* What's possibly worse is that if the Leafs had won the series we would have had a *Toronto / Montreal Stanley Cup final*
@ryans413 Like I have said on previous comments in other videos regarding that incident blame Nurse he caused it to happen by pushing Kessler into Talbot
Slapshot: the 'non call' at #5 happened in Game 6 of the 1993 Western Conference Finals. NOT Game 7. Game 7 was is Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens and Wayne had 3 goals (a hat trick) and 1 assist for 4 points in Game 7. Wayne has said that was the best game he's ever played in the NHL. Your moment at #2... Game 6 was in CALGARY; NOT Tampa Bay.
@XxNoMErcY99xX 1. That has never happened in the history of the league. 2. Even if it did, it would be a penalty. It's no different then a goalie coming out to play the puck. It's 1 thing to tap a goalie while outside the crease but something completely different to hit, or drag, a goalie. If they called a goal off for a goalie being touched outside the crease, goalies would constantly be outside the crease making sure to get tapped by somebody.
@@XxNoMErcY99xX he got dragged cause he forced it to happen skater skating towards the boards and leg got caught in between pads when he was skating that way making the move then price stick his pads up while he was trying to get out he was dragged cause of momentum of where he was skating how is that interference you goalies try to get every damn weak call in the book
Also, Gelinas DEFINITELY scored in game 6... strangely, the refs also missed a DEFINITE trip by Marty St. Louis against Iginla which was immediately followed by the game winning goal by Tampa.
I mean the Calgary Flames still could’ve lost the Stanley Cup, because if they’d scored even two times from seven minutes left, because I’ve seen players score three times within one minute, in fact I seen a team score five times within 15 seconds!
It’s pretty ironic how the number 1 WORST call on this video is the only one that was legal. I love to see that Sabres fans are still crying about it though
Lol at the Greztky one. They all switched jersey after the missed call? The missed call was game 6, and he scored a hat trick to force game 7. And in that day a high stick causing a cut was automatically 5 and a game, not just a penalty.
I’m sorry but that calgary goal that was called back was way too close to call. The angle the camera takes is from the side, meaning the shot is closer to the ground than it should be. They didn’t have overhead cameras that could see something that close. Nowadays i’m certain it would’ve shown no goal.
How is number 4 bad call? An early whistle yes, but not a bad call. The play was dead and puck was put in the net after the whistle. Do you mean that the right call would have been a good goal?
Actually when looking through all of them, many of them were the right call. For example, Hull goal, Gelinas no goal. The Gelinas goal was inconclusive, and the call on ice was no goal. It went by the rulebook. The Gretzky Gilmour high stick was a missed call as Fraser did not see it and Gilmour said Fraser it was a follow through even though it was not. Fraser had to go with the information he had and not call a penalty. There have been many many worse calls than these.
the Chicago coincidental minor is an obvious call, D Sedin was clearly interference, the Nashville whistle was a classic lost puck (not a bad call), the 04 "puck was in" call wasn't strong enough to overturn the call on the ice. (and I'm a die hard flames fan)
What about the hit on Richard with no penalty on the Boston player, then Richard retaliates and gets suspended for a year! You did say history of hockey! This was the worst!
The worst one gotta be Game 5 of Oilers vs Cannucks this year. Where Patterson (From Cannucks) got a call for Charging when the other dude charged him, Patterson was just standing there passing to a teammate. Oilers was even very confused and even Oilers fans were throwing stuff at the ref.
Before you rant, you should at least learn the player's names. Who is Patterson? To the best of my recollection, nobody by that name has ever played in the NHL.
I'm sorry, but 1:35 is Prices fault. Look closely. I know he was making a save, but his pad moved to Hayes direction and hit his skate. Hayes didn't directly skate into his pad.. You're on ice, obviously you're going to slide with that bump, especially when the skate hits the area of the pads that Price moved his pad to...
Two worst calls I’ve ever seen came in the Sabres playoffs. The first was the ‘phantom goal’ Where eagle was scored on the Sabres through a hole in the side of the net.. Ridiculous. And the second was obviously the o.t. skate in the crease that caused us to lose game six of the cup finals. Next year they changed the rule to say that your skate could be in the crease. Which means they knew they screwed up, but there was no way of giving us that game seven we deserved.
At 0:22 - It looks to me like the ref was in the process of calling the double minors, in which case the whistle is blown. Neither team had to touch the puck to blow the play dead, therefore the goal couldn't have counted. My 2 cents. On the next one, with Nash running into Price, yes it looks like interference, but Price's right leg and pad may have been outside the crease when Nash hit him. The two different angles seem to show conflicting facts, which of course is not possible. 1:31 favors Price, while 1:36 favors Nash. I think this was a difficult - not an obvious - call. Certainly not a "worst call." I couldn't watch this erroneous video anymore after the claim of a "soft ass" penalty at 3:17. I think you're way off the mark, and the title "WORST Calls in NHL History" is clickbait.
Should add the recent 2024 bad ref calls. So many in Boston Florida and Oilers Canucks series it isn't even funny anymore. I stopped watching soccer for a reason. Now NHL is gonna be in the next list I am about to stop watching because of the terrifying refs. You know what; or I just accept that NHL is just another black market and continue watching so that I can enjoy laughing at it.
I don’t even hate the penguins for that horrible win against Nashville during the cup. The ref just said no for no reason. It was so heartbreaking to see that that call changed the entire game and made us lose. That is a reason why Nashville hates refs and every time they make a call we shout “ref you suck”.
Regarding the Gretzky high stick, he has a white shirt when injuring Gilmour, but when they show a clip of him scoring the game-winning goal, he has a black shirt.
how about the price goal when the nyr player fell skates forward, then lifted his skates into price's knee at the last second, injuring him and taking him out for the rest of the season?
You missed the greatest no call of all time that literally kicked off one of the nhls greatest dynasty’s. The islanders no call on the offsides in 81 against the flyers. The flyers were the better team that year and the isles scored the series winner because of that no call. The flyers would not get back for another 5 years and the islanders would end up winning 5 straight.
4:42 Leafs fans if you don’t like this call you have to be cheering for Vancouver. Same thing McDavid did but the league has to “protect the investment”
Okay i dont wanna be that guy, but some of these were good calls. #9 can go both ways. Was it necessary? Hell no. But it was roughing both ways. Its more of a pansy call. He got the call right, but its such a light, snowflake call, let the boys play. #8, price was not interfered with. The players leg dragged caught prices leg while OUTSIDE of the crease. Good goal.
I've take a good look at the the 2nd call, there wasn't geed enough evidence, from an angle it might apear to be across when I is not. Number 1 was the correct call, according to the then rules.
How many times does the Brett Hull goal need to be explained? At the time, players with possession could be in the crease, and you didn't lose possession by getting your own rebound.
For reasons that never made sense to anyone, Toronto was in the west (not that it was called that) as were Tampa Bay and Detroit. The Prince of Wales conference was essentially the north-east (with the exception of the Leafs and Red Wings) and the Campbell Conference was everyone else.
There should be ZERO excuse in the MLB. Slow sport, tons of cameras and angles. I'd say that the NHL is the hardest, and especially in the playoffs where shifts are 25-35 seconds and all four lines are rolling in and off the ice. The sport in insanely fast, and the refs have to be in perfect position at all times to make the right call. I have no opinion on the NBA or NFL really, but the pervasive and shoved-down-your-throat betting sites I think is contributing to people questioning refs more....FFS the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are SPONSORED by f'n Draft Kings/ Not a good look in my opinion.
