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Originally Posted by Locke
These guys need to actually watch the games.
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They did. From the article:
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Rachel Doerrie, formerly of the New Jersey Devils, rewatched every McDavid shift for the series and counted “over 30” infractions that were missed, which sounds about right based on my own live viewing. McDavid earned zero.
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All of that is theoretical though. Here’s a real-world example. McDavid has had 355 distinct eight-game stretches over his entire career. He has had zero penalties drawn in an eight-game span just twice over that time period. That’s 0.6 percent.
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On Monday night, Kailer Yamamoto took a penalty four minutes into the first overtime, an obvious call that should have been made. If we’re playing by the rules we all know and love for playoff overtime, that call should’ve set the standard for the rest of overtime, right? What it actually meant was that the calls were even at four apiece for the game and that was “fair.” There would be no need for further calls, both teams got their allotted power play quota and it does not matter if one team is actually playing a cleaner game than the other.
I’m sure there were calls on Edmonton I missed, maybe even obvious ones (the referees even managed to “miss” a puck over the glass call), but over the next 40-plus minutes of hockey there were at least five missed calls on the Jets. Not ticky-tack calls. Not preseason, get the rust off calls. Not even first-period calls. These were brutal, painfully obvious penalties that would normally be called 95 percent of the time. I guess Monday night was the five percent.
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Hatred (or mockery) of the Oilers aside, the unhappiness with officiating and the double standards, not only between regular season and playoffs, and regulation and overtime, is starting to grow. I think the WIlson incident, followed by Kadri, was the final straw for a lot of people.