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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Emotion, grit, heart, toughness? Yeah some of those storylines are great, but the main thing about the playoffs is the super high quality hockey. It consists of the best teams trying as hard as they possibly can and often finding another unexpected gear. Kings / Hawks was, let's be honest, not a particularly gritty, toughness-filled series compared to many, but it might have been the best playoff series in a decade because of how damned GOOD the teams were, how experienced they were under pressure, and how hard they played. Nothing in that series would have been affected by calling penalties correctly and consistently, and really the refereeing on the whole wasn't bad in those 7 games.
I think it would have been a minor controversy... the reason there might not have been much uproar is that very few people care about these teams. If it had been England or Brazil or France? No one would have shut up about it for a week. Even so, this is silly; you want a ref to decide not to make a call on the basis that it won't cause a massive uproar? I continue to be absolutely baffled by your line of thought.
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Of course if it involved England there would be change, there's goal line technology because England got screwed at the last World Cup (sorry England fans...). The uproar level would actually want me to have the call cost an England or Brazil because then it would result in change (i.e. replay). I just found it to be a very soft call is all. Sometimes you just gotta let it go, it wasn't an egrigious, obvious call, it was very close.