Bruins vs Canucks = Complete Corruption From Referees

Can someone explain to me how this results in a 5 on 3 powerplay for Vancouver? That game was ridiculously lopsided towards the Canucks when it came to penalties and making calls. If I had to guess, Alain Vigneault, Mr. "My Team is a bunch of Saints and the Bruins are big meanies", probably gave the refs blowjobs before the game. Let me break this down for you guys, bit by bit.

• First off, they don't show it in the video, but while skating to the bench, everyone's favorite Canuck Alex Burrows decides to give Daniel Paille and nice stick blade to the back of the knees (You'll notice that around 2:04). Resident kicker of ass Shawn Thornton took exception to that and went after Burrows by giving him a little hack at the legs in return. Then, former Scab Maxime Lapierre (still a pussy)/Burrows thinks it'd be funny to spear Thornton in the throat. Clearly he has no common sense whatsoever, because Thornton would kick the crap out of him any day of the week. So, obviously Thornton decides he's gonna kick Lapierre's ass. Then he's stuck in a 7 on 1. First off, the Canucks have too many men on the ice, as Louise Sedin was the extra man on that shouldn't have been there (of course this wasn't noticed because he backed away and hid like a little girl). Second, how do the refs allow 6 Canucks to play pig pile on Thornton? That in itself is ridiculous. And then you have Cody Hodgson getting into it FROM THE BENCH. That in itself is a game misconduct. But, shockingly enough, this too goes completely unnoticed (seriously, my theory of Vigneault blowing the refs is looking pretty solid right now).
• Milan Lucic, our other resident kicker of ass, is getting off the bench for a line change, and in the process sees this pig pile and does what any teammate would do, jump into the middle of it and kick everyone's ass until they get off of Thornton. Apparently this is a no-no, 'cause the refs gave him a misconduct for leaving the bench to engage in a fight (I really miss the days when guys like Neely would just jump onto the ice and kick someone's ass 'cause they hated them). That was bullshit, because even if he wasn't in the middle of a line change anyways, what is he supposed to do when he's halfway onto the ice? Stand there and say "I think he's got this."? Of course not. I would've done the same thing Lucic did, jump in there and get them the hell off of my teammate.
• Stop the video at 0:04. You see that on the right? Is that? Yes, it is indeed Kevin Bieksa pulling the linesman off of the pile so he can get into it. How the hell is that not called a penalty? Since when are players allowed to put their hands on an official? If that's legal then hell I'm gonna do that every time I get a penalty when I play. the refs didn't see that, but that linesman sure knew what was happening, and he decided not to say a word to the referees. (Maybe Vigneault blew the linesmen too) That's definitely suspension worthy, and if nothing comes of that, then it just proves the league is on Vancouver's side.
• Nathan Horton, ass kicker incognito as a 20+ goal scorer, doesn't like what he sees from Dale Weise. Can you blame him? So, he decides to pull him out and kick his ass. That was an awesome fight. I give Weise a small bit of credit for actually engaging with Horton, but he probably thought it would be an easy win for him. Wrong! Horton kicked the holy living hell out of him. That really was an awesome fight.
• Notice how during the Horton-Weise fight the refs are completely ignoring the fact that Burrows and Bieksa are still trying to get Lucic to go. How can you just stand there and watch them tie him up and continue to chirp?
• Stop at 1:15. See Bieksa trying to get into it with Chara? Yeah, and then notice how Lucic throws him into a headlock and pulls him away. If you ask me, he's being a little too nice, I would've loved to see Chara kick the shit out that little turd.

Now this is another thing that annoys the living hell out of me. Let's analyze this one too.

• As per Rule 44.1 of the NHL Rulebook, Marchand was assessed a penalty for clipping, the act of hitting an opposing player at or below the knees. This is a minor penalty automatically. Ok, I see that. I would understand if Marchand was given 2:00 for clipping, but they gave him a major penalty.
• As per Rule 44.3, a major penalty is assessed for clipping if there is an injury as a direct result of the act of clipping. So, Marchand was given a major. My question is why. There was no confirmation of an injury, and it wasn't like Salo was out cold. He sure didn't look hurt when he squirmed around on his knees. He sure didn't look hurt when he threw his stick around like a little baby. And he sure as hell didn't look hurt when he got up and skated to the bench UNDER HIS OWN POWER WITH NO HELP WHATSOEVER. He didn't look hurt until he got to the bench and then decided he couldn't go anywhere on his own. There was no clear injury on the play, therefore Marchand should have only received a minor penalty for clipping. The game misconduct was assessed automatically, because as per Rule 44.5, any time a major penalty is given for clipping, a game misconduct must also be assessed. 
• Now watch this in slow motion. Watch Salo carefully. Notice how, just as Marchand is about to duck, he raises his upper body so he's in position to deliver an elbow to the head? Yep, so do I. It looks to me like Marchand was defending himself from getting his brain rattled. I agree with Julien's comment on the Marchand call (Comments below). Salo was going head hunting and Marchand was trying to avoid getting his head smashed into the boards. And for all you Vancouver fans who decide to read this, first of all I say F*ck you for stalking me and trying to rip me apart on Twitter (and thanks to the asshole who called me gay), and if Salo has "never taken a run in his career" as some troll tweeted me yesterday, make sure you tell him I said congratulations on his first career run next time you see him.

Start right around 6:55. Can you believe what a bitch Dale Weise is? Seriously, grow a pair and fight for the love of Bobby Orr.


Julien on Marchand: "We all have our opinions on what is going on in the game with the hits and everything else. All I'm going to tell you is that I always told my players that they need to protect themselves. The last thing I want my players to do is get hit and end up with a concussion, and they have to protect themselves. Whether it's the right way or the wrong way, it'll depend on how the league looks at it. I'd rather have a guy take a two minute penalty than turn his back to the play, stand up straight, and get his face knocked into the glass and be out for maybe the rest of the year with a concussion, or maybe end his career like [Marc] Savard. So I think we have to really look at those kinds of things. In my opinion, if guys start protecting themselves the way Marchand did, maybe guys will stop taking runs at other guys, because that's the conseuqences you end up paying for taking runs at guys, too. Who knows where we're going to go with this. I know we're all trying hard to fix that part of the game, but it's still there, and it's still not fixed."