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Is reffing biased AGAINST Canadian teams?

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S E P H said:
Different angles can cause faulty visual perceptions due to aspects like refraction and dispersion of light waves.
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Tacitus Kilgore said:
I actually like it that way. People say we need to grow the game more than it is right this moment. I don't even think we need to go to 32 teams.

Also we have like quadruple your population, there's gonna be a disparity between who watches the other sports and why. And that is a whole different conversation than reffing which is what this thread is about
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I mean the league is a hot mess for a thousand reasons, appealing to people who will never accept the sport is just one of them.
 
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Tacitus Kilgore said:
Sure. But any team in the playoffs in a major metropolitan area will be selling out in the states
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LA has the mass media celebrity appeal that other markets don’t have. They can draw in a lot of casuals. The LA sports scene hype helps them big time as well.
 
It's tough to argue there hasn't been some major inconsistencies in more than one series so far this year.

However, that's just garbage officiating and not a conspiracy against any specific team.
 
Sky04 said:
There are a ton of them showing it does not touch but hey you have the one that does on your phone "it just doesn't work".
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I just edited my previous reply to say I took a screen recording with my phone to slow the video down (which I’ve never done before) and HF isn’t accepting the format. Give me a sec to figure it out lol.
 
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Wait...isn't the war room in Toronto anyways? Probably sold their soul to get Gary's dream match of Arizona and Pittsburgh in the finals. amiright?
 
KeithIsActuallyBad said:
I mean the league is a hot mess for a thousand reasons, appealing to people who will never accept the sport is just one of them.
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Highly disagree with that notion. All it takes is the right player(s) on the right team to grow a market. I was 10 years old in Ovie's rookie year. Watching the DC,Maryland,Virginia area fall in love with him and the Caps as they got better and better, was pretty damn cool. Even while being a Pens fan.

If it can happen in the Nation's capital, Tampa Florida, Dallas Texas, LA, St Louis Missouri ; All Cup winning teams with good fanbases, it can happy anywhere in the US. Except maybe Arizona lol

MessierII said:
LA has the mass media celebrity appeal that other markets don’t have. They can draw in a lot of casuals. The LA sports scene hype helps them big time as well.
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No doubt. My point still stands though that any US team in the playoffs will sellout their barn. Also I'm literally on the opposite side of the country to LA. VERY few casuals over here are attracted to the celebrity appeal of the LA market.

They might see on ESPN a clip of Will Ferrell in the stands and go "haha that's cool". And that's it
 
Tacitus Kilgore said:
Highly disagree with that notion. All it takes is the right player(s) on the right team to grow a market. I was 10 years old in Ovie's rookie year. Watching the DC,Maryland,Virginia area fall in love with him and the Caps as they got better and better, was pretty damn cool. Even while being a Pens fan.

If it can happen in the Nation's capital, Tampa Florida, Dallas Texas, LA, St Louis Missouri ; All Cup winning teams with good fanbases, it can happy anywhere in the US. Except maybe Arizona lol
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And yet the average sports fan down south could tell you who the backup QB for the Boilermakers is long before they could tell you who McDavid was. It just doesn’t work in America.
 
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thaman8765678 said:
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.
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I am good friends with a retired NHL referee and he told me nothing is ever written or said officially but it is an elephant in the room as officials want to get second-round assignments

The NHL WANTS Canadian teams to do well in the playoffs as the Canadian TV contract expires in 3 years and the NHL already knows it will be difficult to match what Rogers paid for 12 seasons starting in 2014-2015.

Canadian English TV lives or dies with Ontario and Rogers overpaid believing the Leafs would have several long playoff runs.
 
Fenway said:
I am good friends with a retired NHL referee and he told me nothing is ever written or said officially but it is an elephant in the room as officials want to get second-round assignments

The NHL WANTS Canadian teams to do well in the playoffs as the Canadian TV contract expires in 3 years and the NHL already knows it will be difficult to match what Rogers paid for 12 seasons starting in 2014-2015.

Canadian English TV lives or dies with Ontario and Rogers overpaid believing the Leafs would have several long playoff runs.
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I bet if you checked the ratings for the 2016 playoffs they’d be only slightly worse than 2017s in Canada.
 
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thaman8765678 said:
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.
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Ummm no
 
Sky04 said:
There are a ton of them showing it does not touch but hey you have the one that does on your phone "it just doesn't work".
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Here you go. I had to crop the video much shorter than I’d like and convert to a gif, but you can still see the three things I mentioned. Feel free to show one of the many videos showing it “doesn’t touch”.
 

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No, there is an angle that shows it might have and there is another angle that shows it did not. The closer one shows it did not at any point hit his stick. You can't state causation until it actually happens due to different angles playing tricks on the eye (like the Flames goal supposedly crossing the line, it also never did). I am open for my mind to change though if you have a video showing it 100% did.
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Here’s a gif. Much shorter than I wanted but the others were too big to upload. Anyways, even based off this I have no idea how you can seriously say it didn’t touch.
 

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KeithIsActuallyBad said:
And yet the average sports fan down south could tell you who the backup QB for the Boilermakers is long before they could tell you who McDavid was. It just doesn’t work in America.
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Hockey doesn't work in the US? The whole damn country? Idk who you're trying to fool. But you're factually wrong. The NHL has never been more popular in it's existence nor players salaries higher than they are now. Not to mention the worth of teams in either Canada or the US to be in the billions. Far more than they have ever been worth

Who tf are the boilermakers? I've been as far south as Alabama and as far north as Manhattan (not that far I know). Sure Football is number 1. Football is to the US as Hockey is to Canada. But I'd wager you've never been to more than a couple states, if any. You have no idea what you're talking about.

Tons of US sports fans know Sid, due to his marketing being much better during prime. As well as playing on a US team. And Olympic exposure. I can guarantee McDavid would be far more known in the US if he played for and American team as well as in the Olympics
 
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4EDM14OIL93 said:
Here you go. I had to crop the video much shorter than I’d like and convert to a gif, but you can still see the three things I mentioned. Feel free to show one of the many videos showing it “doesn’t touch”.
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That shows nothing without seeing from the other side as well lol
 
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