No one’s going to blame Don Koharski for this one.
After all, Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals was indeed a “holy [expletive!]” kind of game.
The Edmonton Oilers were up 4-2 in an attempt to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Colorado Avalanche, but then the Canadian team collapsed and Colorado is on to the Stanley Cup Final.
It was during Monday’s game that Koharski — a former NHL referee now working for TNT as a rules analyst — was going over a replay of what would be the game-winning (and series-winning) goal, because the puck might have been touched with a high stick by Artturi Lehkonen before he buried it.
And that’s when he uttered a curse on air as officials reviewed it:
