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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| inverno76 wrote on Mon, 24 April 2023 11:27 |
I do not believe in a league wide conspiracy to keep Canadian teams down.
I do believe we have a systematic refereeing issue that is not going away. They are having difficulty finding kids to ref atom and midget games right now. I do not know if it's terrible hockey parents scaring kids away, or they do a poor job marketing it to young players as a way to make some extra cash and have a legitimate chance to make it to higher levels of hockey.
What I do know is that far too many parents and minor league coaches are jerkoffs, and with no feeder system we are going to keep getting inexperienced washed up AHL'ers who can skate like the wind, but have limited in-game experience.
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I think that the difficulties in developing officials is absolutely part of the problem, but I think there's some systemic issues with the NHL specifically. For whatever reason, the people who run the league feel that hockey is made better by allowing teams to impede their stars. Where other sports like basketball may go too far the other direction and defer too much to their star players, in the NHL we regularly see teams resort to just hanging off star players in the post-season. That that isn't called is a league decision, not just a referee decision. We saw last night McDavid get literally punched in the face, right in front of a referee, with no call at all. No matter the feeder system, that should be a penalty, but the league has told refs that they don't want the games all decided on the powerplay so they overlook infractions. I think it's amplified in Edmonton because that powerplay is so good that the refs feel they are almost awarding us a goal every time they raise their arm.
I would prefer to see the refs asked to continue to call obvious infractions and not to look for chances to even things up if they've made a couple calls one way. I'd also be clear that if there's a dive caught, it won't likely be a coincidental penalty but rather just the diver going to the box. There's still too much embellishment, and I think the fact that when they call dives, they usually still call the other infraction is part of that problem. It's still low-risk for the diver...at worst they are 4-on-4.
Until the league decides that they're okay with a first round where some team gets repeatedly dinged for penalties until they learn better, we're going to see this again and again every year. It's too fine a line that the league wants the referees to walk otherwise.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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