WATCH Blues Kevin Shattenkirk mock applauds refs after game
The suffered a 1-0 lo s at the hands of the Tuesday night. The lo s was not without controversy, however, as the Blues had a goal waved off due to a Jarvis Landry Jersey questionable penalty on would-be scorer .After giving up the first goal early in the second period, Stastny and broke into the Jets zone. Ott sent a pa s towards Stastny who had Jets defenseman draped on him. Stastny ended up knocking Myers stick out of his hands before slipping a backhanded shot Denzel Ward Jersey past .The puck was in, but the referee had already called the penalty on Stastny. He got two minutes for slashing. After multiple replays, it looked to be a marginal slash at best as Stastny was fighting for body positioning and made pretty light contact with Myers stick.Heres a look at the play in question (the last replay appears to give the best view): Perhaps the Winnipeg defenseman let the stick go a little more easily than he would have in order to draw a call. Either way, the goal was wiped out.St. Louis never managed to find the net and mi sed out on a Sione Takitaki Jersey crucial two points that could have helped them tighten their grip on first place in the Central Division. It was a big game and that call clearly cost them a goal.Its a borderline decision, though. Its only more noticeable because it happened on a potential scoring play. Marginal penalties are called all the time. We'd like officials to be as close to perfect and consistent as po sible, but these things kind of happen. Needle s to say, the Blues were not happy about the call. One such player held on to the frustration and made his feelings about the referees performance abundantly clear at the Chris Hubbard Jersey end of the game. After pulling away from a scrum at the end of regulation, St. Louis defenseman skated right over to the officials and gave the men in stripes mock applause and may have said "Nice job" if my lip-reading is on point.The feigned praise earned Shattenkirk a 10-minute misconduct even though the game was over.Its pretty rare to see Jim Brown Jersey an NHL player show up the refs like that, but its that time of year where tensions are raised and every point really counts. Anyone that gets in the way of those points will obviously be the object of scorn.