Rick Tocchet, Elias Pettersson call out the NHL's officiating.

The Vancouver Canucks are out of the playoff picture and have been out of it for quite a while now but, since the mid-season addition of head coach Rick Tocchet, the team has done a relatively good job of playing out the National Hockey League's 2022-23 regular season as though the games are still meaningful.

On Friday night, in spite of the fact that many of their fans would like to see the team lose for a better chance at winning the NHL draft lottery and selecting Connor Bedard, the Canucks lost a hard fought game to the Calgary Flames, one that many Canucks felt they should have won.

Following the game both head coach Rick Tocchet and Canucks star forward Elias Pettersson were noticeably frustrated with the officiating surrounding a penalty call that had gone against Pettersson, a penalty that led to a game-tying goal for the Flames.

"Yeah very frustrating," admitted Pettersson after the game. "I don't know what to say, I'm just pissed off."

"I don't wanna comment because I'll probably get fined, they did their best and they made a call I didn't agree with. They're stubborn and they said it was right, so I just gotta accept it."

According to Thomas Drance, both Pettersson and Tocchet cited a rule from the NHL's own rulebook that appears to indicate the officials on the ice did in fact make an error, but unfortunately that will do little to remedy the actual impact of the call itself.