Couple of points, the league clearly wants the refs to call the playoffs differently than the regular season, if they didn't it wouldn't happen.
Knowing that it's on the teams to build a playoff team not a regular season team or suffer the fate of the Canucks with the Sedins, great regular season team, god awful playoff team.
Second, again clearly the league wants the refs to even up the calls and to some degree effect the game, don't like it myself but its the NHL, its always been that way since I've been here.
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