Keith Ballard Flips Over Jamie McGinn: Canucks Defenseman's Huge Hit (VIDEO)

He's famous for his hip checks, actually.

Both teams were getting some pretty ridiculous penalties.

The ref's didn't "give" the 5 on 3's, the Sharks made it practicall­y inevitable all by themselves­.

Heatley's high sticking penalty was his stick whacking Hodgson over the head. There was no way around calling that.

Mitchell's hook on Sedin... ok, I generally wish they'd let those goes but it was only the second in the sequence and Mitchell said flat out after the game that yeah, he hooked him. If it happened at the end of a string of three other penalties I think the ref's would have looked the other way but at this point penalties were 5-1 in favor of the sharks.

Then too many men. Again, normally one I would be ok with the ref's letting go... *EXCEPT* when the player jumping on early **immediat­ely plays the puck**. That's a no-no. And that's what happened. Have to call that. That's all on the Sharks.

Then the last one... guy shoots it over the glass from his own end. What were the ref's supposed to do, pretend the puck was still on the ice and tell everyone to please keep playing? Play make believe like they **don't know** that's delay of game? That one was automatic and again, nobody involved in making it happen except the Sharks themselves­.

And want to keep in mind the 5 consecutiv­e power plays they handed the Sharks before that? Three of which were REALLY questionab­le calls?

The Sharks cost themselves this game.

The penalties that put the Sharks in 5-on-3 situations were of the "have no choice but to call" variety. Mitchell hooked Sedin right in front of the official, Sedin's hard pass to Clowe (?) before the sixth player left the ice was a classic too-many-m­en penalty that will always get called and Murphy flipped the puck over the glass which everybody, including himself, knew was automatic. Ouch. Look at the bright side. You witnessed hockey history.