NHL hockey is very difficult to referee with a lot of subjectivity. Too much subjectivity.
Solution: simplify the rules. Any slash above the knee or on the hands should be called a slash. Right now, people get slashed 30 times a game, and the refs call it whenever they feel like or when someone shakes their wrists. Any contact on another player's head should be roughing. Jabs to the face, headlocks, facewashes. Roughing. This will also help reduce all of the useless scrums. Any free hand wrapped around another player is a hold.
Make concrete, non-subjective rules, and more consistent refereeing will follow.
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Gaudreau > Huberdeau AINEC
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