Just a couple of hypotheticals. If the puck hadn’t crossed the line, should there have been a penalty for playing the puck with a broken stick and a penalty shot due to the defender putting his glove on the puck while in the crease? They probably discussed this on air, but the volume was muted on my TV at the time.
Penalty for playing the puck with a broken stick? Yes.
Penalty shot? No. If you watch the replay, his hand is on the ice behind the puck before the puck gets pushed towards his glove and both go over the line. He never COVERED the puck with his hand so no penalty.
As for this series as a whole, I'm not going to cry ref because both teams have had egregious calls and egregious misses. My issue at this point is where the hell is the line and can we please get an ounce of consistency.
Domi gets the weakest crosscheck I've ever seen as the series first penalty and then there are no calls for obvious hit to the head to Holmberg or Tavares.
Rodrigues gets called for embellishment on a boarding play and then no embellishment calls for guys whipping their heads back or diving on a slight tap to the leg.
The Rodrigues incident wss incredibly weird. It seems like they just decided it was going to be 4 on 4 and then gave penalties out at random to make it work... It might have made sense if Laughton got 2 for boarding + 2 for roughing and then Florida (Schmidt?) got 2 for instigating and 2 for roughing, but that's not what happened.
In addition, make-up penalties and game manament penalties are trash. If my team goes up 2 or 3-0 to start the game I'm expecting a weak penalty which is ridiculous and should never be the case for any team.
Edit: it seems like the refs this year have been calling a bunch of penalties when teams are making dumb decisions then as soon as there's been a few penalties they change their level to avoid over penalizing a team. The players need to adjust and stop taking undisciplined penalties, it should not be the refs adjusting to how the players are playing.