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Originally Posted by stazzy33
AC do you have the play where Johnny got a stick or glove in the face just before Lindholm took a penalty for "interference"? I think this is a perfect example of why Johnny doesn't get any calls, it makes him look like a soccer player. He stands there with his glove on his face for a good five seconds before slowly starting to skate back out to the blue line, then the puck gets turned over and all of a sudden he is back to 100%. I ref minor hockey and if I see #### like that, the player loses all credibility with me. However I may be a terrible ref, so what do I know.
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I'm not trying to take a shot at you.
But the bottom line to me is a penalty is a penalty, if the Refs go in with a strategy of putting their whistles away then it has to be the same for both sides, I'm really not seeing that.
I've coached at multiple levels of football and talked to Refs a lot and I'll say this. If a ref isn't making a call because a player is whining or so called showing them up, then he is a bad ref, and its especially bad at a pro level where these guys should have a thinker skin and act professionally.
I get it at an amateur level where a ref is paid gas money to show up, and is still in "training" but the refs are well paid for their job which is making sure that they don't unbalance the scales based on a BS emotional response.
I remember talking to one ref who really doesn't like me anymore after a game. And he basically said "I don't like you're head coach because he yells at us so I kind of put my whistle away and roll my eyes" I told him that he shouldn't ref anymore because he's really making it all about him.