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NBC Mike Milbury says something fishy going on with officiating
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Sunday June 03, 2018, 08:12:01 PM Eastern ---Yes, particularly against weak 4th forwards and/or soft puckmovers that fly 5ftt anc beyond with a little cross check, then yes, and add Wilson and DSP there too.
If players don’t like being crosschecked, they should get up and a go after the one that did it, or do it back to them tenfold. Not boo-hoo about the officiating that misses or ignores most the “infractions” anyway
We fans need to man up and quit acting like the Hens and their fans, crying about calls.
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I don't mind standing up for oneself, except it seems in the NHL that it's the retaliation that gets called. I thought the comment about Kuzy looking around after he had given a retaliatory cross-check, expecting to get called, was telling.
These are high stakes here, the scores are relatively close, and players don't want to be the one that happens to be nailed for a penalty in a close game by retaliating. Now the refs could let the players determine the outcome by simply calling ABSOLUTELY nothing and letting the games deteriorate into mayhem, but there IS a viable alternative, and that is for them to call the consequential initial penalties.
You know that if the Caps were to give a Finals game away by getting irritated, retaliating, and getting called for penalties that would turn a game in Vegas' favor, that you would criticize them for taking stupid penalties.
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