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Originally Posted by RyZ
Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez
A loyal & intelligent reader asked me to compare Calgary's change in penalty rate (pre and post Wideman hit) to other teams. Here's a plot
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Despite the initial shock value of the visual, I just don't see how everyone thinks this is such damning evidence. Take away the 2 games in back-to-back nights shortly after the incident where we were on the penalty kill an incredible 16 times and that lowers the penalty rate 0.47 (16 penalties/34 games)...bringing our penalty rate UNDER 0.0 for the remaining 32 games (meaning LESS penalties were called after the incident the rest of last season).
You can definitely argue the refs were out to screw us in those two games...provided the calls are actually unwarranted. But it's very misleading to lump those 2 outliers in with the other 32 games to artificially inflate the average and make it seem like way more penalties were called in every game to end last season.