Is reffing biased AGAINST Canadian teams?

[UHHHH SON]

Rivals don’t exist?

 

[El Travo]

Let's be honest... if the call happens the other way tonight, it might have been a different result in the review.

Just being honest (and I despise the Oilers).

If my Grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bike.

Making up scenarios in order to justify an argument is weak.

 

[reino]

Other than Leafs and maybe Montréal league doesn't want Canadian team to win. It would be absolutely disaster if Winnipeg wins even round. Edmonton is more complex because of course they want McDavid to go deep, but they want Oilers to lose.

 

[Sky04]

No they just whine the most, especially from Edmonton and Toronto, going on 3 decades + without winning will do that to you though I guess.

 

[4EDM14OIL93]

No you can't

Are you actually blind?

 

[pearljamvs5]

Now, hear me out: I am NOT an Oilers fan and I am not talking about this game specifically.

It seems that more often than not, the Canadian teams get the shaft in the playoffs. I don't know what it is, but it seems in every key moment the Canadian team is the one who gets the critical penalty. Or has a controversial review go against them.

Is there a way we can track this? I am far from a fan of any Canadian team except the one I cheer for. But come on, at some point there has to be some sort of agenda set by the league right? Everyone can see it.

"I am NOT biased as I am NOT a fan of ANY Canadian team! I mean, except for the the fact that the teams I cheer for all just happen to be Canadian!" Its more likely that the refs aren't biased and that the penalties are being decided by humans who sometimes get the calls correct, and sometimes get the calls incorrect, and whichever team is receiving the penalty will disagree either way.

 

[4EDM14OIL93]

No they just whine the most, especially from Edmonton and Toronto, going on 3 decades + without winning will do that to you though I guess.

You think the puck didn’t touch the stick?

 

[Choralone]

Americans don’t even know who Mcdavid is. They just hear LA is in and show up.

In rebuttal of your laughable take:

Other Americans don't generally like Californians, and most Californians don't generally like Los Angeles. America isn't uniting behind us or something.

In Los Angeles itself, the Lakers, Rams, Dodgers, and LAFC have all recently won championships. The Kings have been a lottery team until the last two years. Most Angelenos don't give a crap about the Kings, let alone anyone from outside our city.

 

[S E P H]

Now, hear me out: I am NOT an Oilers fan and I am not talking about this game specifically.

It seems that more often than not, the Canadian teams get the shaft in the playoffs. I don't know what it is, but it seems in every key moment the Canadian team is the one who gets the critical penalty. Or has a controversial review go against them.

Is there a way we can track this? I am far from a fan of any Canadian team except the one I cheer for. But come on, at some point there has to be some sort of agenda set by the league right? Everyone can see it.

 

[MessierII]

In rebuttal of your laughable take:

Other Americans don't generally like Californians, and most Californians don't generally like Los Angeles. America isn't uniting behind us or something.

In Los Angeles itself, the Lakers, Rams, Dodgers, and LAFC have all recently won championships. The Kings have been a lottery team until the last two years. Most Angelenos don't give a crap about the Kings, let alone anyone from outside our city.

It doesn’t matter if the rest of the states cares the Los Angeles’s market in the second largest in the league. It’s a huge market albeit there is two teams.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

In rebuttal of your laughable take:

Other Americans don't generally like Californians, and most Californians don't generally like Los Angeles. America isn't uniting behind us or something.

In Los Angeles itself, the Lakers, Rams, Dodgers, and LAFC have all recently won championships. The Kings have been a lottery team until the last two years. Most Angelenos don't give a crap about the Kings, let alone anyone from outside our city.

America doesn’t and never will care about hockey.

 

[S E P H]

You think the puck didn’t touch the stick?

There is an angle that shows it did not and there is another angle that shows it might have. It's the same situation with the Flames goal on Khabibulin in the Cup Final back in 2004, one angle shows it crossed the line and the overhead angle shows it did not. Different angles can cause faulty visual perceptions due to aspects like refraction and dispersion of light waves.

 

[Bowski]

Deal with it hoser!

Keep paying premium prices up there in the north, and good old Gary B. will buy out all that prime land down south.

Then they'll make a Southern Division with all dem proper winning teams like Tampa.

We'll send you some coals up to your tundra to keep the true NHL Southern fire burning throughout!

 

[JiricekSaveUs]

Canadian teams going far in the playoffs is bad business

 

[Three On Zero]

No

 

[S E P H]

America doesn’t and never will care about hockey.

So you're saying is because America doesn't care, Canadian teams deserve a positive handicap? Bruv, you lot have sunk to a new low.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Of course not, that's silly conspiracy theory nonsense.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

So you're saying is because America doesn't care, Canadian teams deserve a positive handicap? Bruv, you lot have sunk to a new low.

Just stating a fact. No matter how much old Gary tries to appeal to Americans it will never work.

 

[Not Canada Drai]

Pretty sure the average fan is more likely to tune into the McDavid show than to watch because LA is in.

Wrong.

 

[S E P H]

Just stating a fact. No matter how much old Gary tries to appeal to Americans it will never work.

Lol, you are actually stating that. Ah mate, you lots tears are delicious, Gordon Ramsey level good. FTR, you are totally wrong about Merica not caring, viewership is up double digits compared to last year.

 

[canuckster19]

When Canucks fans like myself thought we were being shafted 2009-2013, not because of bias, but simply because the rules in the playoffs are obviously different, other Canadian fans told us not to be a soft playoff hockey team and suck it up.

Well we said back then one day their time will come and we’ll be laughing saying we told you so… well here we are.

There was one series though I think we were obviously being shafted by the refs, maybe more to do with reputation than anything, and that was 2013 vs the Sharks, even Todd McLellan kind of snarkily addressed it saying something along the lines of “Yeah well this evens us up for the reffing in 2011”. The reason I even bring this up is because, the hilarious part is the Sharks got more PPs in 2011 as well.

 

[wmupreds]

Wrong.

Based on?

 

[lionsDen]

No, I would hope not. I don’t understand why they would be biased doesn’t make sense.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Lol, you are actually stating that. Ah mate, you lots tears are delicious, Gordon Ramsey level good.

Tears from what exactly? That America will never embrace hockey? Somehow my heart will go on. NFL gets more coverage down south and it’s been out of season for months.

I'm an American hockey fan telling you that is some BS.

I'm a Pens fan that lives 35 mins outside DC. People here care more about MLS soccer than they do the LA Kings

I’m shocked that America doesn’t care about hockey.

 

[RunItBackAgain]

viewership is up double digits compared to last year.

Gary got 10 extra viewers since last season? Noiceeeee!