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Originally Posted by stemit14
I hate this Game management stuff. Call the game by the book. If it's a penalty... Call it. If it's not... Don't call it. The score should have nothing to do with it. If a team is up by five goals an official shouldn't be looking for pity calls to help the losing team. It's the same frustration I have with games being reffed differently in the playoffs. A penalty in October should still be a penalty in May.
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It's not really about trying to control the outcome or flow of the game.
More-so it is about trying to keep the game safe and stay out of the flow.
Sometimes you are out there and you just think to yourself this team just is not getting a fair shake I need to find something, in that mind set you are watching for things you are ready to call things at a moments notice.
Sometimes you are out there and teams are playing a good hard clean game and you are in the find set that you just want to keep up with the flow of the game, when that's happening you are allot more likely to miss small things or let them slid, if they don't really have an impact.
Safety is most important, and most are probably more worried about Fairness/Neutrality than the Letter of the law. That said I don't think any officials think handing out an even number of penalties implies fairness, they just don't want either team to feel like everything is going against them because it often creates an unsafe situation.