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Originally Posted by GullFoss
Hypothesis: The PP/PK mismatch is entirely driven by road games. Could it be driven by the fact that the referees are more intimidated by opposition fans than they are by us? I wonder... If the dome was louder, would we get more calls at home?
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Did the Saddledome suddenly become much quieter because of the Wideman incident?
Your hypothesis explains the wrong thing, it seems to me.
The Saddledome has always been relatively quiet (during the regular season especially) – partly because of the acoustics of the building, which have not changed since 1983. If your hypothesis were true, we would expect to see that the Flames had taken more penalties than their opposition at all times since 1983. But we don't see that. What we see is a very sudden and sharp change after the Wideman incident, and your hypothesis says nothing about that at all.