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Originally Posted by FAN
I do believe that the NHL does issue directives to the refs. Remember the year Boston won their Cup and TB was killing them on the PP? Guess what happened in Game 7? The refs stopped calling penalties.
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A game 7 with neither team getting a penalty doesn't exactly scream bias.
If the directive was "let them play" I'd agree, wouldn't be the first time the refs put away the whistles in an important game. If it was "make sure Boston has the edge" why wasn't there a PP for them? They were scoring on it as well and they didn't have a goal until late in the third that game. Or if they wanted Boston to advance, why make any call against them in game 6 when Boston is winning and Tampa's PP was really clicking? If you want Team A to advance, calling consecutive PP's against them when they are up is about the worst way in the world to go about it.