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Originally Posted by dino7c
If every player that yelled at a ref got benched you and I would be playing as replacements
Tkachuk is one of the best players...putting him in the press box would be beyond stupid. He also came back and scored one.
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In today's woke society what could have Tkachuk said that would be so bad as to merit a penalty and it wouldn't be cause for cancellation and the apology circuit.
I think that a ref should never call an unsportsmanlike penalty unless the player attempts to embarrass / intimidate the ref in a manner that the crowd would notice.
Something called off the bench would have to cross the line into the refs safe space or was ignoring a direct warning that the next chirp out of you and I am calling a penalty.
I hope that Tkachuk learned from this episode.