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Originally Posted by Five-hole
This, 100%.
It's an internally inconsistent system and it's stupid. Everybody knows there are these unspoken rules that less is called in the 2nd half of a game and in the playoffs. But that leads to a situation where there is a penalty that just has to be called even in spite of that rule, so the refs are faced with not calling the rulebook or not calling the "unspoken" rulebook, and one team and its fanbase inevitably feels like they got jobbed.
Bettman said that every fanbase feels like they are getting screwed by the refs means it is working. No, it means the exact opposite, you dolt. There are two different rulebooks in the NHL and that is just ridiculous, and it means everybody feels like they're getting screwed because there is just way too much discretion involved in refereeing a game.
Call the god damned rulebook. Even if that means one team gets 16 penalties and the other gets two.
They've already thrown the "slashing crackdown" right out the window. Goalie interference is legendarily inconsistent.
No one should ever again utter the phrase "oh come on, you haven't been calling that all game!"
This has to be fixed.
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I actually find this funny.
Its the ultimate paradox, people complain about hockey the most when the referees do just that.
The Rulebook is an antique. Its awful.
Hockey, 'By the Book,' would be unwatchable.
Which is why Refereeing is brutal. Because it requires the refs to use some personal discretion and as such its why officiating is inherently inconsistent and infuriating.
Some refs call this, some dont, and sometimes both are on the ice at the same time staring at the same thing.