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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
If the refs called every single slash that occurs you'd have about 1 minute of 5-5 per game. Yes, they need to do a better job of catching the big ones like this one last night but the ultimate responsibility lies with the team to police this issue on the ice.
Guadreau gets whacked then you better be damn sure that Parise takes one right back or someone has to drop the mitts and answer for it. Sooner or later the really bad ones will be fewer and farther apart. Not one player that I saw stepped up and did anything to answer it on Johnny's behalf....appalling. If I'm Guadreau I'm definitely feeling like no one has my back.
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Let me start by saying, I'd be thrilled to see someone on this team step up and start taking some liberties against the opposition, but ultimately, it's the leagues responsibility if they don't want to encourage that kind of thing. If it means they only play 1 minute of 5 on 5 until players start to understand that this type of action won't be tolerated then fine. If you start asking the refs to gauge how bad a hack is, it only opens the door to even more bs calls.