 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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Sadly the NHL doesn't seem to value their stars. They pretend they do but in reality they value parity amongst teams. They want games to be close so the crappy teams can stay in and the league can say "look at how competitive our whole league is". So they allow players to take liberties on the stars. They talk about how important it is for players to "battle through". Young players have to earn the respect of the refs by battling through to have the refs call the freaking rules for them. Games are managed by the refs to keep it close.
Last nights game is a classic example. During the broadcast, they talked about how the Kings I believe draw the most PP's in the NHL and the Oilers are in the 20's. How the hell is it possible that the team with the fastest, most skilled player on the planet in maybe the last 20 yrs AND they also have another top 5 player on the planet can draw so few penalties. It doesn't make any sense if the league called the rules properly but they don't want too because the Oilers PP is too good and they don't want to let the game get out of hand because of all the penalties. So they "let them play" and we see games like that. I knew going into the game it would be a very difficult game to watch and for the Oilers to win. I knew the Kings would clog it up, I knew they would clutch, grab and interfere a ton and I knew that the refs wouldn't call anything. Because if they called anything, the game probably would have been lop sided because the Kings would be in the box the whole game. That game happened exactly like I expected. As soon as the game was 10 mins old as I watched Kings water skiing, hooking, holding and can opening Oilers from the drop of the puck and then Kings scored first , I said to myself, this will be a 3-1 Kings win with an empty netter.
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