{"id":334761,"date":"2025-12-08T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334761\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:01:08","slug":"rangers-left-fuming-at-refs-after-questionable-calls-put-them-in-bind-they-failed-to-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334761\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers left fuming at refs after questionable calls put them in bind they failed to escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a shame when officiating seemingly sways a game in one direction or another.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt the Rangers got the short end of a questionably called matchup with the Golden Knights on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, but this <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/07\/sports\/rangers-blow-late-lead-in-ot-loss-to-golden-knights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 overtime loss<\/a> had been brewing since before any of the controversial calls were even made \u2014 or not made.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan said he wasn\u2019t given an explanation for referee Chris Lee\u2019s matching roughing penalties on Will Borgen and ex-Ranger Brett Howden at the 18:02 mark of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>There appeared to be a minor every-shift tiff in front of the home bench, but the veteran bench boss maintained that \u201cthere was nothing going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is always a shame when officiating seemingly sways a game in one direction or another. There\u2019s no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,93125,3617,575,85,2136,735,7529],"class_list":["post-334761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}