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Originally Posted by GirlySports
That's what refs are there for. We have endless discussions on all other infractions anyways so that nothing unusual. Everything else is grey.. heck even too many men in the ice which just involves counting players has a grey area of how close a player is to the bench and was he really in the playing area or not.
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Hockey is a weird game that way I think. It's much more fluid than virtually every other professional sport that the refs are given a lot of power since the rules can't cover everything. And it creates a speed/consistency issue since the penalties are hard to judge in real time and the human factor causes different refs to view different levels of violence and contact as different severity penalties.