How Do They Allow Larue To Stay In This League?

It is very obvious to anyone who watches NHL game that Dennis Larue has no business on an NHL ice surface. He is simply a disgrace. Yet there he is materially affect yet another NHL game with his gross incompetence. And I'm not claiming he is out to get the Blues (like I might with someone like Mick McGeough). Oh, I'll do that sometimes, but deep down I know I'm just a little unbalanced when it comes to the Blues. Larue is different because he ruins every game he officiates every time. He is 0 for his career.

For the love of all that is holy, get him the hell out of there, and send him back to the pee-wee league...that he will probably ruin as well.

UPDATE:

Kelly Chase is about to lose it on the radio after yet another bad call, as the Blues/Senators game is quickly disintegrating into something ugly. Some Ottawa player went after Jackman's knee and God only knows what will happen now.

Chase: "This crap has been going on for seven years while New York is supposed to be 'handling' this. There is no accountability."

UPDATE:

Now Larue won't allow the Blues to make a goaltender change although they cannot be denied the change.

Fire Larue now.

UPDATE:

The Blues have had a second goal taken away from them. This time by McGeough.

This is a joke.

UPDATE:

Someone should probably check the bank accounts or the IQ of the two officials doing the game tonight. They are either cheating for the benefit of gamblers or they are retarded.

Blues lose 4-2 with the empty netter.

UPDATE:

I'm not alone in thinking the Blues got robbed tonight. From Sportsnet in Canada:

The Ottawa Senators will take wins any way they can get them.

Antoine Vermette scored a short-handed goal 4:26 into the third period to lift the Senators to a 4-2 victory Tuesday night over the St. Louis Blues, who felt they were robbed of two goals. The first of the disputed calls came moments before Vermette's winner.

"I have to tell you, I don't have a lot of sympathy," Senators coach Bryan Murray said.

Brad Boyes put the puck in at 3:14 of the final period and moments before play was stopped when Senators goalie Martin Gerber took possession of the puck. Replays showed that the puck went about a foot past the goal line before Gerber pulled it back with his stick and smothered it. The goal light wasn't turned on and the officials didn't look at replays until after play resumed.

According to Rule 78.6, once a game has restarted following a stoppage of play -- in this case when Gerber held onto the puck -- a replay can't award or disallow a goal.

"This should not happen in this day and age," said Blues centre Doug Weight, who also lamented his team allowing two short-handed goals. "There's going to be sometimes you catch it, sometimes you don't."

The horn blew and play stopped 33 seconds later. The referees talked briefly with video goal judge Jerry Burt. Blues coach Andy Murray said referee Michael McGeough acknowledged during the delay that the goal should have counted but they couldn't reverse the call.

Andy Murray was annoyed that play was stopped with the Blues in possession of the puck in the Senators zone. He was more angry that Burt and NHL officials in Toronto, who monitor every game and can call for a review, didn't in a timely fashion.

"The video goal judge said he watched the replay and said he didn't think it went in," he said. "I mean, it's not even close. It's not even close."

He also took exception to Bryan Murray saying he clearly heard the whistle blow "well before" the puck went over the red line.

"His hearing isn't good if that's the case," the Blues coach said.

Just another example of the Canadia....I mean the National Hockey League in action.

The NHL will obviously show they are fair and above board by fining the Blues.