authentic
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- Jan 28, 2015
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Hate to say it because I'm sure they're trying their best, but the officiating is just so poor. They basically just make it up as they go.
I'm almost to the point where I'm thinking it's impossible to officiate this sport well. It's just so fast with so much happening all at once and most infractions are not black and white and decisions have to be made in a split second.
But how Manson's crosscheck (on one of the superstar players of the league no less!) is not an easy, obvious call is just beyond me.
This is it right here. No one’s asking for it to be perfect, but when blatant penalties like that happen against us and the refs just ignore it only to call a lousy push by McCabe on Rantanen and whatever other weak calls got them to a 5-1 advantage, while also ignoring the obvious trip on Domi and several others it just makes you wonder. Like if it was just a few times this happened it’s like whatever but this has been a common theme for the past few years now. When was the las time we got 5-1 powerplays while the ref ignored blatant penalties we should’ve had? Doesn’t really happen.