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Originally Posted by Jayems
After 3 summer seasons and 2 full winter seasons, I've come to the conclusion that the NCHL is the biggest joke in Calgary.
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Yesterday being the perfect example. Man that had to be THE WORST hockey game I've ever participated in.
The NCHL (they tell their refs how to call the game) has this weird thing where the refs will watch a cheapshot or instigation and not do anything, and then wait for the victim to retaliate. The reason for this, is that they think by being harsh on the retaliaters, they will have less hotheads and incidents in the league. What they don't realize is that this has the opposite effect.
Case in point, last night the other teams ringer (we're in div E and this guy wes easily a div A, another thing the HNA doesn't allow) hit Jayams, crosschecked him , and then pushed him to the ice, so this was three infractions commited while the ref stood right beside them shaking his head. Then both refs stood there and waited for jayams to react, which he finally did, so with one push back from jayams, both refs' hands shot up in the air, as they came racing in to give him the only penalty on the play.
When I asked for an explanation, the one ref said "do you know what a retaliation is", to which I said "do you know what needs to happen in order for there to BE a retaliation?". She then gave me a weak slashing call about a minute later, and apparantly my penalty was "two minutes for slashing, and go hit the showers"
