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Originally Posted by blankall
From the refs' perspective, they are also doing their best to stop this series from devolving into pure chaos. You've got two physical and somewhat goony teams outright threatening each other. In yesterday's game, the Flames started Lucic for the opening faceoff and he immediately started openly calling out Benn.
There's some truth to the refs throwing a wet blanket on the play, but their motivations aren't entirely malicious either.
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I don’t consider the reffing malicious in this series. It’s just that they are influencing the game too much. They are trying to define in their terms how the series should go. And I don’t think their method is working in terms of quelling the physicality/goons.
And they obviously aren’t doing this stuff for player safety. If they’re really trying to keep players safe, the league/officials would have given Jamie Benn at least a game for what he tried to do to Mangiapane with his stick a couple games ago. Doesn’t matter if it resulted in an injury or not… the intent to stab a player in face/eye with a stick was there and all they did was a fine. Nothing to a player making Benn’s money.
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