Whatever happened to quality gamesmanship in sports?! Like, have we really reached a point in which referees feel the need to intervene in the clever arrangement of ice shavings? Being familiar with both the shit-eating grin and the workplace hijinks of Marc-Andre Fleury, he was doing this more for the laugh than for some sort of slight advantage that would only make an actual difference in an insanely rare circumstance. Still, I can't help but feel like he should have been awarded for his MacGyver-esque resourcefulness with the reaching-between-the-couch-cushions-type payoff of allowing his ant-hill of an inanimate extra man to stand. You can't push a puck through a localized dusting of snow then you don't deserve the insurance goal, whereas if you do manage to stop a puck with a localized dusting of snow than you deserve the credit that comes with making more than just your ingenious thought count. It's just a damn shame that the officials had to go and take away the one-a-in-million probability of MAF's joke packing a punchline powerful enough to force a bunch of grown-ass professionals to have a closed-door meeting about the appropriation of ice shavings, as I thought we encouraged the incitement of frivolous debates in sports.
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