Another game of the Stanley Cup Finals is in the books and the Ducks now lead the series 3 games to 1. The first period was back and forth but with only 0.3 seconds left Alfredsson scored to give the Senators a 1-0 lead. The second period was almost all Ducks. Andy McDonald scores 2 goals within 60 seconds of each other. With only 2 minutes left in the second Dany Heatley scores to tie the game at 3. The third period was also mostly all Ducks. About 4 minutes in they score their third goal, which was the game winning goal.

It was great hockey to watch, but a lot of things pissed me off. Only a minute into the game Chris Neil of the Senators basically gets nudged and falls down. One of the biggest dives I’ve seen in a hockey game. Penalty on the Ducks. Then Ryan Getzlaf charges towards the net and barely touches Senators goalie Ray Emery. Emery fly’s back like he got punched in the face. Another huge dive that the Ducks got penalized for. That call what total BS, Emery was barely touched, not to mention he was out of the crease. And finally the thing that really pissed me off about this game was in the final seconds of the second period Afredsson is going up center ice and is about to shoot the puck at the net because there are only a few seconds left on the clock, then he changes his mind and shoots the puck right at Scott Neidermayer of the Ducks. It was so blatant and just a plain cheap shot. After it happened a lot of the players went over and got in Alfredsson’s face. He ended up punching one, which is a penalty for sure. At the beginning of the second period there were only 2 penalties, and none of them were on Alfredsson. The officiating in this series has been horrible, at times it’s like if you touch someone you will get a penalty, but they again you can shoot the puck directly at a player and then punch another one in the face and you won’t get anything. You can check out the recap of the game here.

So now it’s on the game 5 in Anaheim. It would be really nice for the Ducks to finish this out and win the cup at home. I do want them to win, but I don’t want hockey to be over. Go Ducks!