Adam wrote on Mon, 15 March 2021 20:18

Skookum Jim wrote on Mon, 15 March 2021 19:58 WhoreableGuy wrote on Mon, 15 March 2021 18:53 watchman wrote on Mon, 15 March 2021 19:51 JJ isn't a professional fighter. That was a fight he didn't have to take... Then 97 gets tripped. Ref watching it all happen... Play on! Then a marginal trip against the OIL. 2 minutes. Prime example of different rules for McD and the rest of the league. I couldn’t believe the non call on the McDavid trip. Actually I could, we see it every game. He would have danced in around the D and gone in on Markstrom one on one. refs are freaking embarrassing, its beyond incompetence, it has to be by design, they seem to consider themselves as the McDavid handicap, raising the bar on infractions vs McD to keep it "fair" to the plugs on the other teams. Plus the fact that Edmonton isn't a "first tier" NHL franchise, and their success isn't important to the NHL Corp vision of the future, results in us getting what we get. You got that right. The refereeing in the NHL is just an embarrassment. Ridiculous amount of holding and interference in this game, especially on McDavid and Draisaitl, and no calls. The Chiasson trip was a penalty, but there was easily 5 as blatant infractions in the first period on the Flames. Big effort needed tonight to beat the Flames and the Stripes tonight.

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