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Its silly.

Gaudreau is clearly trying to fight through it. The initial contact is right on his hands, but he's been told to stop whining and just play. So he tries to fight through it.

If anyone embellishes its Mckinnon.

On the biggest stage, I really do feel like the refs are trying to do their best. Its not easy managing these games when the intensity, physicality and stick work goes up exponentially. The inconsistency is what is infuriating. The standard for calls has been different in every single period. It gets in the players heads and creates situations where it feels like we're getting jobbed.

What we don't really have much insight in, is if behind the scenes teams have been warned to watch the stickwork, or the stuff between whistles etc.