bull. a puck goes off a ref (who never even tried to get out of the way), to an opposing player and they score and that's nothing to bitch about? it's a momentum killer when shit like that happens.
TB fans have had reason enough to complain about officiating lately. you can't say we haven't if you haven't seen the games.
If your team can't overcome a "momentum killer" then they don't deserve to win. Teams that allow the referees to "kill their momentum" lack focus and drive. True winners don't even let that kind of thing faze them one bit. Anyone who played sports at a competitive level and had success knows this. Winners find a way to win, no matter what the officiating is like.
Besides, are you trying to say the ref knocked the puck in on purpose and that the NHL referees have it in for you or something and that's why your team is a bottom-dweller this season? Give me a break. It was a freak play, they happen.
Anyway, you've been on the very lucky side of some bad officiating in the past:
Don't know if there is a big enough cry towel to give you. It could be argued that the refs gave game 7 to Tampa when they won the cup against Calgary.
Replays and photographs I saw in the newspaper clearly showed that Jarome Iginla's disallowed goal in overtime of Game 6 against your Tampa Bay Lightning did in fact cross the goal line, and yet the call was that it didn't and the Lightning went on to win that game and then Game 7 and the Stanley Cup as well. If it weren't for bad officiating your team would never have won a Stanley Cup.