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GDT R2G5 Penguins @ Capitals 2018-05-05 7:00pm EST NBC, SN, TVAS
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: Devise on Saturday May 05, 2018, 09:43:29 PM Eastern ---
The point is to take the pressure off the refs. It isn't really a "referee" issue. It's a Pittsburgh Penguin issue. The default diving mindset they have is not only reckless, childish, and petty, it can be dangerous. I feel like to me it's the type of thing that and the whining their coaching staff and players are allowed to get away with that should be brought up at GM meetings and the like. Harsher rules for that stuff, more suspensions for diving, more focus on the integrity of the game.
Either that or allow the enforcer to come back and let us make their boys pay for every dive.
For the record when I say it's not a referee issue I'm not referring to shitty calls. That is an issue, but that happens every series regardless. We had games where the calls weren't great in Columbus and other times where it was fine. The refs aren't great on the whole in the NHL, but it gets magnified and amplified in every single series the Pens play. There just isn't consistency when it comes to some of their tactics, because a lot of them aren't your typical tactics of a cheap team. They play the victim card more than any other team. And while I agree it's bullshit, I'd rather the practical focus get put on that instead of "oh the ref didn't catch that, the refs are clearly getting paid by the Pens." Which is just a silly statement to make. That isn't true. The pens are just trash bags who have tainted the integrity of the penalty by diving and whining. That is true.
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The league should have come down HARD on the Penguins and any other player that dives. That they keep falling for it and never do anything about it kind of says to them to keep on doing it. They should suspend players that do that shit.
alta:
Backy is not on the bench right now
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday May 05, 2018, 09:46:05 PM Eastern ---
As I've said, the league is well aware of the Hens diving. It could easily be fixed with supplemental discipline like they do with the hitting, yet the league refuses to do so. That in upon itself is bias if they won't fix it.
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Hehe, we typed basically the same thing at the same time. Great minds think alike.
ArJunaZ:
Anyone see what happened to Backy?
Devise:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday May 05, 2018, 09:47:12 PM Eastern ---Backy is not on the bench right now
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Didn't notice that yeah is he hurt?
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