In some ways, the Panthers mastery of finding the razor thin line between gritty and scummy is kinda admirable.
As someone else on reddit put it, manipulating the officials might as well be its own game and Florida happens to be very, very good at it. No different then when Nashville was the best team in the league or even Tampa during their run of dominance.
Hell i'm not going to judge. I saw a Bruin use one of the Sedin brothers as a speedbag right in front of the refs and they just shrugged. Or that time Tim Thomas decided he was a linebacker and nailed a forward coming down on him.
I would still prefer if Zadorov catch a manslaughter charge to send a message, but i get it.