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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm not one to subscribe to conspiracies and league fixes. But I keep coming back to a few things.
The Flames came out very physically in game one. In game two the refs gave the Oilers 6 power plays to the Flames 2. After that the Flames physical play went away because they didn't know what a penalty was. Meanwhile right in front of an official JP takes a Flame in the slot, in the last game there was a clear high stick and a butt end, as well Edmonton was picking and interfering all over the ice.
then the topper was the non goal, which clearly based on past goals should have been ok. But not only that but the on ice officials called it a good goal, Edmonton didn't challenge it. Then the league spends about 8 minutes directly looking for a reason to disallow or come up with a cover story for why they would disallow it.
I don't know if the Flames would have won this series, it seems unlikely, Edmonton or more so their top players carried the corpse. But the fact is it felt like the league wants the McDavid storyline going forward and helped the Oilers a lot.
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If you've ever watched the Netflix series, "Bad Sport", it is classic for officials fixing a game to call penalties one way when the outcome is in doubt, and another when the desired outcome has been more or less secured, in order to avoid detection. How many Edmonton penalties came when the score was tied or within one goal, compared to Calgary penalties, and how many were called for each team when the goal differential was more than two? For the most part, Calgary's power plays came late in games in which they were unlikely to affect the outcome.
In case you think that the league would never intervene to deliberately influence the outcomes of games,
here's food for thought from Bettman's emails to Terry Gregson that were released to the public following the investigation of the concussion scandal (note that the date on the headline should read 2012, not 2016).
I'm looking to see if I can confirm these alleged emails from another source.