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Got a question on rule clarification, comments on rule enforcements or some memorable NHL stories? Kerry wants to answer your emails at cmonref@tsn.ca! Hi Kerry, My question to you is what is the going through a referees mind when a missed call or a wrong call results in a game winning goal? I refer back to last weeks game involving Edmonton and Toronto. There was a clear mistake made by the officials in overtime against Ryan Nugent-Hopkins that resulted a turnover and a 3-on-1 break and a game-winning goal for Toronto. I am sure that the referees knew that they had messed up and would certainly have known after the fact. I am sure that during your career that must have occurred at least once. My question is how do you feel after and do you apologize for the error? Chuck --- Hi Chuck: I messed up more than once during my career for sure; the most obvious being Wayne Gretzkys missed high-stick on Doug Gilmour in 1993. A referee never wants to affect the outcome of a game. That infamous missed call certainly affected the outcome of Game 6 of that Western Conference Final when Gretz scored the winning goal in OT immediately after play resumed. Instead, he should have been sitting in the penalty box with a double minor. The teams would have played 4-on-4 until Glenn Anderson served the balance of his boarding penalty. The Leafs would have then gone on the power play "if" neither team had scored to end the game at that point. We know one thing for certain; Wayne Gretzky would not have scored the winner for at least four minutes! Tremendous uncertainty surrounded the aftermath of the missed infraction. When I asked "Killer" what had happened he said that Waynes follow-through of his shot struck him on the chin. I responded, "If thats the case a normal follow-through of a shot does not constitute a penalty!" Gilmour was okay with that understanding. Something just didnt sit right with me so I sought assistance from my two colleagues. Neither of the linesmen (Kevin Collins and Ron Finn) was able to confirm the high-stick which left me with a totally helpless feeling of uncertainty. My desire as the sole Referee in a game was to see everything. In this situation I had failed my objective miserably. It wasnt until the next day however, when I saw a replay of the incident that I became aware of the missed call. As a result, the sick feeling an official gets in the pit of their gut when they mess up wasnt instantaneous but delayed for 24 hours. That sick feeling didnt subside any time soon as I watched Gretzky light it up back in Toronto to eliminate the Leafs in Game 7. While the memory of the incident could never really be erased (nor should it) I had to learn from it and move forward no differently than a player mistake costs his team a game, a series or even a Stanley Cup. Rookie Steve Smiths errant bank shot off the back of Grant Fuhrs leg comes to mind. To his credit and personal strength Smitty bounced back and had a tremendous NHL career. One play or one call should not define a career. There were other times that I knew in the moment that I had blown a call. If I overreacted by signaling a phantom/marginal penalty I wanted to chew my arm off during the delay. At times such as this I instantly knew it was a bad call as much as the player I was sending to the box. Whenever the team captain approached me in protest of the bad call I would admit my mistake immediately. Inevitably the Captains next response was, "You owe us one" or "Better make one up!" While I would respond that "Two wrongs dont make a right" the most difficult challenge was always to fight human nature when you know you erred. I did my very best not to do that very thing - make the dreaded makeup call. I will tell you there were many times that I silently rooted for the success of a teams PK unit. Two minutes can seem like an eternity when your mouth feels like its full of dry sawdust. If the team was scored upon that sick-gut feeling intensified but had to be pushed aside but remaining ever hopeful through the ebb and flow the game would be clearly decided by the players. When an error has been made it is really important to bear down and keep your head in the moment and not dwell on the past mistake. You have to push negative thoughts out and allow them to pass through as opposed to dwelling on them. Sometimes that takes self-talk; almost in a running play-by-play dialogue to maintain focus and avoid missing yet another call. What I am attempting to share with you here is not only the reality of human failure (mistakes made) which we all know happen but more importantly how we respond in dealing with that failure through our individual human nature. Every Official truly cares about the game and gives their very best. Their desire for perfection is an impossible task to achieve yet every Official chases that illusive "perfect game." The most respected and proficient Referees are the ones that minimize their mistakes, admit to them when they occur but most importantly learn from them and move forward. There are always calls throughout a game, a season or a career that every Official wishes he had the opportunity to do over again. Perhaps the Refs in the Leafs-Oilers game would like another shot at viewing and responding as Cody Franson punched Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to the ice from behind in overtime resulting in a three-on-one and Dave Bollands winning goal. Ill leave that call for them to wrestle with and perhaps learn from. Thanks for the thought-provoking question Chuck. Know that we cant alter history - just our response in the present. Hoby Milner Rays Jersey . Over the course of his career Glenn is 79-71-1 in 151 starts for a .526 career winning percentage. 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Darcy Kuemper stopped 37 shots.Mark Streit and Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers, who lost their fourth straight. Ray Emery had 27 saves.The Wild improved to 4-6 on the road and earned just their second win in 10 visits to Philadelphia (2-7-1).MAPLE LEAFS 5, LIGHTNING 2TORONTO (AP) — James van Riemsdyk scored two goals to lead Toronto to a much-needed victory over Tampa Bay.David Clarkson, Richard Panik and Roman Polak added goals for Toronto, which scored early in the first period and three times in the second to snap a three-game losing streak.Alex Killorn and Steven Stamkos scored for Tampa Bay, which has dropped two straight after beating the Rangers in New York 5-1 on Monday.The usually high-scoring Lightning couldnt break through Jonathan Bernier, who redeemed himself after being pulled from Tuesdays 9-2 loss to Nashville after allowing three goals on 12 shots in 20 minutes.Bernier recorded his sixth win of the season, stopping 26 shots.CANADIENS 4, BLUES 1MONTREAL (AP) — Max Pacioretty scored twice, and Montreal beat St. Louis. Dale Weise and Lars Eller also scored, and Carey Price made 31 saves.Vladimir Tarasenko had the lone goal for St. Louis. Jake Allen stopped 26 shots in defeat.Pacioretty netted the winner at 7:32 of the second — his team-leading ninth goal. He got the better of Allen on a breakaway after taking a stretch pass from linemate Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau from his own zone.The Canadiens (15-5-1) stretched their lead atop the Eastern Conference to three points. The Blues have lost consecutive games after winning 10 of 11.SENATORS 3, PREDATORS 2OTTAWA (AP) — Bobby Ryan, Alex Chiasson and Jared Cowen all scored in the second period, Robin Lehner stopped 33 shots, and Ottawa topped Nashville.Shea Weber and Olli Jokinen scored for Nashville, and Carter Hutton — playing for just the third time this season — stopped 16 shots.Ryans power-play goal tied it 1-1 at 6 minutes of the second period. Chiasson put Ottawa ahead with 6:42 remaining in the period, scoring his fifth of the season.Cowen made it 3-1 just 2:06 later.Jokinen made it a one-goal game in the opening minutes of the third period, getting his first point with the Predators. Nashville outshot Ottawa 16-3 in the third period.RED WINGS 4, JETS 3WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Tomas Tatar scored two goals and added an assist as Detroit defeated Winnipeg.Justin Abdelkader had the tying goal and an assist for the Red Wings, and Johan Franzen scored his sixth of the season.Dustin Byfuglien, Adam Lowry and Mathieu Perrault had goals for Winnipeg. Ondrej Pavelec made 23 saves.Detroit rested Jimmy Howard after he was in net for the Red Wings 5-0 victory over Columbus on Tuesday. With backup Jonas Gustavsson out because of a dislocated shoulder, Petr Mrazek played in his 12th career game and first this season, and made 28 saves.STARS 3, COYOTES 1DALLAS (AP) — John Klingberg, Cody Eakin and Jason Spezza all scored in the third period, rallying Dallas past Arizona.Ales Hemsky had two assists as Dallas ended a seven-game, home-losing streak (0-5-2). The Stars won for just the second time in 11 home games (2-5-4).Arizona has lost its last five games in Dallas.Klingberg and Eakin scored 33 seconds apart in the opening minute of the third period. Klingbergs goal from the slot was his first in the NHL, in his sixth game, and it tied it 19 seconds into the period.Spezza made it 3-1 with 4:18 remaining.Lauri Korpikoski scored for the Coyotes with 5:39 left in the first period.Arizonas Mike Smith madde 24 saves.dddddddddddd Dallas Kari Lehtonen stopped 26 shots.CAPITALS 3, AVALANCHE 2DENVER (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored late in the third period, Braden Holtby stopped 27 shots, and Washington outlasted Colorado.Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and an assist, Jason Chimera also scored, and Ovechkin added an assist for the Capitals. Washington won the last two games of its three-game trip.Ovechkin broke a 2-all tie when he poked his own rebound over the goal line with 5:56 left. It was his ninth of the season and first in four games.The Avalanche played half the game without Alex Tanguay after he was hit in the face on a shot by Ovechkin. 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They got another from Jakob Silfverberg after Vancouvers Radim Vrbata and Nick Bonino failed to score.The Ducks (12-4-5) earned their first win in five games. The Canucks lost for the second time in three. Anaheim also avenged a Nov. 9 home shootout loss to Vancouver.The Canucks (13-6-1) lost their first one-goal game this season, becoming the last in the NHL to do so.Rookie Bo Horvat, with his first NHL career goal, Jannik Hansen and Radim Vrbata scored for the Canucks in regulation.Andrew Cogliano, Ryan Getzlaf, and Matt Beleskey had goals for Anaheim.Former Canucks centre Ryan Kesler played his first game in Vancouver since being traded to the Ducks in the summer.PANTHERS 3, SHARKS 2, SOSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bjugstad scored twice during regulation and added the winning goal in the shootout as Florida won its fourth straight in San Jose.San Joses Patrick Marleau tied it with 33 seconds remaining in regulation, taking a pass from Joe Thornton and firing it past Roberto Luongo, who had stopped Marleaus penalty shot earlier in the third period.Luongo stopped 28 shots and won for the fourth time in his last five games against the Sharks. The Panthers swept the season series.Logan Couture ended a season-worst eight-game goal-less streak with a power-play tally for the Sharks, who played at home for the first time in two weeks.Antti Niemi made 26 saves for the Sharks, who failed to win for the third time in their last four at home. ' ' '