GDT: Devils @ Predators - 8:00 PM - MSGSN

[My3Sons]

My kids will not be hockey fans as adults and in part it will be because the league handicaps itself by supporting bad players and unskilled teams.

 

[Devs3cups]

Penalties are 2-1 right now, Nashville will probably get one in the 3rd, and the NHL will consider this a well called game because it was even.

Horrendous.

A few weeks ago my dad straight up admitted to me he stopped watching hockey because the officiating pissed him off too much. Shit is gross.

 

[Blackjack]

I really hope they win the cup soon so I can just stop watching altogether. This officiating makes the games miserable to watch.

 

[My3Sons]

Game management is so transparent. Every fan base knows it’s happening and the league has been caught and they just ignore it.

 

[MadDevil]

The people f***ing us View attachment 642268

Weird. I vaguely recall Sandlak as a player for some reason. Looks like this is his first year reffing.

 

[Blender]

Horrendous.

A few weeks ago my dad straight up admitted to me he stopped watching hockey because the officiating pissed him off too much. Shit is gross.

I haven't watched a non-Devils game in 4 years now. I used to watch games every night.

 

[Guttersniped]

I think it will beat the over of 6.0 goals

 

[Devs3cups]

Game management is so transparent. Every fan base knows it’s happening and the league has been caught and they just ignore it.

It honestly seems that there's A LOT more talk about it this year though. I'm hopeful it could potentially get better.

 

[DerekDevils30]

I really hope they win the cup soon so I can just stop watching altogether. This officiating makes the games miserable to watch.

Oh that Cup will hook you right in. Another hook the officials won’t call.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Matty is looking forward to the post game party down Broadway lol

 

[Blender]

Game management is so transparent. Every fan base knows it’s happening and the league has been caught and they just ignore it.

Nah they just blamed Tim Peel as if he was a rogue official and fired him.

 

[Blackjack]

It honestly seems that there's A LOT more talk about it this year though. I'm hopeful it could potentially get better.

The NHL does not give the slightest shit. They have complete contempt for the fans.

 

[My3Sons]

It honestly seems that there's A LOT more talk about it this year though. I'm hopeful it could potentially get better.

I’m skeptical.

 

[Devs3cups]

Nah they just blamed Tim Peel as if he was a rogue official and fired him.

Did Tim Peel ever come out and say every ref does it?

 

[Devilsgrl35]

Tom Poti? lol

 

[Rhodes 81]

Game management is so transparent. Every fan base knows it’s happening and the league has been caught and they just ignore it.

It's wild that they straight up admit to this stuff but nothing happens. Other sports have blown calls, but you never see them trying to keep the holding calls even in football or randomly call a balk on a pitcher cause the other team got one 2 innings ago.

It's frankly confusing that the refs in this league seem to believe their job is to make the game fair rather than to enforce the rules. I usually don't get to worked up about it because we all know the deal by now, but that trip was just so egregious

 

[Devs3cups]

I’m skeptical.

Oh, I am too. I'm skeptically hopeful lol.

 

[MasterofGrond]

It’s statistically proven they do it as well. Penalties are simply not variable enough to be natural.

 

[Puckclektr]

Started watching the game in bed. Lost the remote in the first minute. Struggle to find it by lifting bankets pillows etc. then have to get up pull sheets of bed etc just to find the remote that is almost always in the same 2-3 spots. Am I the only one who deals with this? It is worse with guitar pics.

 

[Devils090]

Please stop with the stupid turnovers tysm

 

[Devs3cups]

LGD!

 

[My3Sons]

It's wild that they straight up admit to this stuff but nothing happens. Other sports have blown calls, but you never see them trying to keep the holding calls even in football or randomly call a balk on a pitcher cause the other team got one 2 innings ago.

It's frankly confusing that the refs in this league seem to believe their job is to make the game fair rather than to enforce the rules. I usually don't get to worked up about it because we all know the deal by now, but that trip was just so egregious

But it’s not fair. Fair is calling the deserved penalties. They think their job is just to call an even number of penalties despite more being deserved. They must be told to do that .

 

[Blender]

Did Tim Peel ever come out and say every ref does it?

Half admitted it and half denied it.

“For people to understand as a referee, normally if you’ve called five or six penalties against one team, I think everybody knows ‘if you can find one against the other team to keep them happy then that’s what we do,” Peel told DFO Rundown hosts Jason Gregor and Frank Seravalli.

“But in this case, there had only been one penalty called in the game and it was against Detroit. When I called that penalty, I think it was Arvidsson that tripped the Detroit player and when I threw my arm up, I was in the neutral zone and I honestly thought Arvidsson tripped him. But as soon as I throw my arm up, I’m like ‘jeez, I didn’t think he pushed him down.’ I didn’t see it the way I thought that I saw it.

“So I think it was my defence mechanism kicking in, more of an embarrassment thing to a guy that I really respected a lot in Kelly Sutherland and I said ‘yeah it wasn’t much, I wanted to get a penalty — which wasn’t the case at all. I didn’t want to get a penalty against Nashville, and I just made a mistake. I made a tremendous error in judgement by choosing the words that I did.”

 

[Devils090]

Please stop with the stupid turnovers tysm

Didn’t even make it 10 seconds

 

[My3Sons]

Somebody else hit in the back no call