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Originally Posted by Freeway
Re: officiating. The NHL lost a ton of experienced referees and linesmen over the past off-season due to age/retirements/injury. I think a far more likely explanation than a far-reaching Wideman-centric conspiracy against the Flames is that a lot of good referees have been replaced by inexperienced ones.
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Fair point - but does not explain things like the ridiculous late call on Hamilton - for what? Being big/strong.
And the worst part of the call? We all knew it was coming, right?