Doughty should have gotten nothing for that hit. That was horse spit
- BringNYIhome

Agreed, but if you suspend one. You got to suspend the other.

If not, Parros is being inconsistent and favoring some over others. Which is BS

one game?
- i'mjustafan

They had to give him something. Surprised it was not just a fine

"The refs looked at it and they decided not to call it because we were already on the power play," Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said.

Sadly, this is correct.

Hockey is the only franking sport in the entire franking world where a referee sees an infraction, then quickly asks the following:

- what is the score?
- how much time is left in the game?
- how many penalties have I already called on Team A?
- how many penalties have I already called on Team B?
- how good a player is the transgressor?
- how good a player is the victim?
- how late in the season/post-season is this game being played?

It's a complex mathematical formula - more complex than the Buzztron 2000 - which ultimately determines if it is a penalty or not.

Cross-check to the face in front of the net? Sorry, it's already a powerplay in a playoff game - no penalty.

It's a franking joke.

- Atomic Wedgie

I know we're about 8 pages deep after this was initially posted but this is the truest-truth that has ever been written on this forum.

Situational refereeing is absolutely reprehensible and yet it has persisted like a cancer in hockey since the beginning. There's an egotism to this unspoken system: it affords referees a measure of power to control events in a way that seeks to apply some kind of "balance" to the game.

It's ridiculous. A cross-check to the face should be a penalty every time regardless of the relative importance of the game. I don't care if a team has been penalized with 2 players in the box serving majors -- if another player performs an infraction it should be called every (frank)ing time.

The meme of "putting the whistles away" should be done away with. It's embarrassing, infantile, and insulting.



But I digress: GO LEAFS GO!!!

:: Eklund: Hatmann hit:Does it get much Dirtier? Couts not at Skate. Knights! Buzz@3

Fixed

I think I said yesterday we’d have 2-4 of these “hits” a week to scream about. I may have been conservative!
This is the league we have

You can't be that willfully ignorant. Morrissey is a cheap shot slime ball.
- Slip and slap

here, partially, why the world does not work, he has the same voting right as everybody !

I know we're about 8 pages deep after this was initially posted but this is the truest-truth that has ever been written on this forum.

Situational refereeing is absolutely reprehensible and yet it has persisted like a cancer in hockey since the beginning. There's an egotism to this unspoken system: it affords referees a measure of power to control events in a way that seeks to apply some kind of "balance" to the game.

It's ridiculous. A cross-check to the face should be a penalty every time regardless of the relative importance of the game. I don't care if a team has been penalized with 2 players in the box serving majors -- if another player performs an infraction it should be called every (frank)ing time.

The meme of "putting the whistles away" should be done away with. It's embarrassing, infantile, and insulting.



But I digress: GO LEAFS GO!!!
- mjones242

I agree...NHL is the only sports that is referring different depending....well so many things...

this is why it so far behind NBA, MLB & NFL... and it wont ever be considered a major sports in the US until they fix that..

Go Bruins go ( puked a little) I don't want you guys to get to the final 4, I need that 2nd rounder to be better

Obviously.

I guess you would know being a souless dirty ginger male nurse and all...
- Iggysbff

Hi

*be's an bumhole*
*gets called out for being an bumhole*
"OMG LOL Y U PPL SO SENSITIVE THESE DAYS LOL U GUISE R GOT A PROBLEM!!!" or "ITS JUST A JOKE!! ITS JUST A JOKE!!!"
- twiztedmike

Wtf do you think escalating punishment is???
- Iggysbff

Escalating punishment is the next time Kadri makes the same hit he gets 5 games. What I'm saying is the next time he does it, he gets 3 games, but when he reaches 5 fines/suspensions, he gets a large suspension.