Fiala's embellishment was not as egregious as Draisaitl's was. IMO, Draisaitl flop's was so much more blatant.
I don't think it really matters much anyway. I didn't think the Kings would put up much of a fight. They just don't have the talent to compete. Dubois is an overpaid player that doesn't do even close to enough out there.
I do think that the NHL does not want to help a small market team like the Oilers go to the Stanley Cup finals, but they do want McDavid there. I am not usually one to blame refs, and i don't necessarily think that all the calls were wrong against LA, but the refs can't make those calls on LA and then NOT make similar calls against Edmonton. Either call everything down the line, or call only the very egregious ones down the line. This was a horse#### of the refs on a deciding game IMO.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. I wanted this series to be pushed to 7 games if nothing else than to keep Edmonton from having time off to nurse whatever nagging injuries that they may have. I predicted 5 games here as I didn't think LA would put up much of a fight.
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