John Tortorella Furious At Ref for Immediately Putting Arm Down

2024 – 2025 Season
Philadelphia Flyers vs. Detroit Red Wings
12/18/2024

46 comments

  2. The officials need to answer media questions after games. The officiating this season has been beyond subpar and needs explaining. Right now there is no accountability.

  4. It's the ref and Flyers' fault for that one. Ref is obvious, but Konecny shouldn't have left the bench like that, especially when the goalie isn't even near the bench. But kinda good on the zebras to not call a penalty at all…? I think? 🤔💁‍♂

  5. well its the flyers fault the goalie never went to the bench the flyers just hoped over the boards expecting the goalie to be at the bench yes refs fault but the flyers premature hoped over the boards

  11. Tripping is triping. High stick is high stick. Too many men is too many men. Philly deserved a penalty. If ref kept his arm up for 2 seconds or longer, then toet would have a reason to be upset. But as it played out, it was completely on philly. They shouldve taken their player right back off!

  12. He flinched my ass.

    Either he was going to make a call and realized it wasn't a penalty or he didn't want to make the call after the fact. Just fess up and be honest about it.

    Crooked ass NHL.

  16. You can't have the home team lose because the ref calls a penalty late in the third…imagine all the BETS people would have lost…have to think about money before fairness

  19. The ref made a mistake and corrected himself. Once he saw the extra Flyer skate by he should have blown the play dead. People are making way too much of the play.

  25. He changed his mind because the player didn’t fall down entirely. This is part of the problem with nhl officiating. It’s too results-based. If a guy makes an illegal hit to the head but the other guy doesn’t get injured, there might not even be a pentalty on that play. This type of enforcement just encourages diving and embellishment.

  28. I'm a Wings fan and the ref should NEVER put their arm back down and change their mind after calling a penalty. I have never seen this at any level. This would be outrageous for kid's house league, this the the freaking NHL. Refs have to be better than this.

  34. We were once playing a pick up game on foot in my backyard 4 on 4 because we only had 8 guys, no goalies … the defensemen doubled as goalies whenever the action got too close to the net.

    Anyway rather innocently I tripped on a stick and out of nowhere I hear this madman yelling at the top of his lungs "THAT'S A FUCKING PENALTY!!!"

    It was John Tortorella walking his dog in my neighborhood. At first I laughed and thought it was hilarious until I realized he was dead serious and started almost hyperventilating. Shit got serious when he tossed a chair onto the playing field and demanded a penalty be called. I told my friend Steve (it was his stick I tripped over) bro you should just sit down for a couple of minutes in a make shift penalty box area at the far top corner of my yard so that this lunatic calms down.

    Steve went into the penalty box area. We kept playing. Tortarella kept staring at Steve in the penalty box to make sure he served the whole two minutes, then offered some critique on our lack of urgency on the power play.

    You just gained a sub. Good channel. No, the above story never happened but I am sure a couple people were thinking Tortorella has to get some help as they were reading.

  37. Why is the extra player coming on to the ice as soon as the ref raises his arm? He has to wait until his goalie skates to the bench. Even if it was a penalty, Phi would have too many men on the ice because the extra skater did not wait until the goalie skated over.

  41. I stopped watching games several years ago because of questionable refereeing. The fix is in for many games and the cup and now with immoral gambling being pushed onto fans it's probably being controlled by organized crime/corporations. Don't gamble and support them.

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