Bruno sounds off
paNOW.com Staff
Raider general manager Bruno Campese couldn't hold it in anymore. Following Friday night's 3-2 loss to Medicine Hat at the Art Hauser Centre, he criticized the officials for an inconsistent night that probably cost his team the game and pushed them closer to a spot out of the post season party.
Campese said what were not called penalties in the first two periods all off a sudden earned players trips to the penalty box in the third. The most blatant inconsistency happened within seconds. With the Raiders trailing 3-2 with four minutes to go in the third period, Centreman Anthony Bardero was hauled down while carrying the puck at the P.A. blue line, a play both referees decided not to call.
Bardero got up and took down the Medicine Hat forward to have the puck and received a tripping penalty. Instead of a potential game tying power play the Raiders were essentially taken out of the game while having to kill the Bardero penalty.