I have a hard time blaming them tooooooo much for some of these "dumb stick penalties". So much of what's dumb about them just comes from the game management decisions made by the refs. If they really called a penalty every single time any player touched another with his stick, there'd be dozens of such calls each game. But instead they just randomly pick a small fraction of them in order to arbitrarily manage the flow of the game. Many of the calls have been extremely weak.
Interesting fact. Being a heavily penalized team is apparently a bonus feature of Hynes’ style of hockey.I have a hard time blaming them tooooooo much for some of these "dumb stick penalties". So much of what's dumb about them just comes from the game management decisions made by the refs. If they really called a penalty every single time any player touched another with his stick, there'd be dozens of such calls each game. But instead they just randomly pick a small fraction of them in order to arbitrarily manage the flow of the game. Many of the calls have been extremely weak.
Heck, it's to the point now that a player can reach down, grab an opponent's stick, wedge it under his arm, and pick up a PP. The chicken wing is the diving of 2022.
I have a hard time blaming them tooooooo much for some of these "dumb stick penalties". So much of what's dumb about them just comes from the game management decisions made by the refs. If they really called a penalty every single time any player touched another with his stick, there'd be dozens of such calls each game. But instead they just randomly pick a small fraction of them in order to arbitrarily manage the flow of the game. Many of the calls have been extremely weak.
Heck, it's to the point now that a player can reach down, grab an opponent's stick, wedge it under his arm, and pick up a PP. The chicken wing is the diving of 2022.
Top ten as the measure is using a third of the league then as the basis. This season is the franchise's highest times shorthanded per game through five games .... 2017-18 remains the worst for a full season (Lavy), then last season (Hynes), and 2010-11 (Trotz).
