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 welcometotheOC
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Registered: April 2010
Location: Also, sadly, Cowtown
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| philly boy wrote on Fri, 28 May 2021 11:24 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 26 May 2021 11:04 |
| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 26 May 2021 07:25 |
| Oscargasm wrote on Wed, 26 May 2021 08:05 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 26 May 2021 00:35 |
Here's that knee by Demelo on the best player in the world in game 4.. no call.. NOTHING!!!
Clowns on the Sportsnet panel totally ignored it.. total BS..
https://twitter.com/zjlaing/status/1397035474124894215
Guy hasn't drawn ONE penalty in 2 playoff series.. that's statistically impossible unless the decision to make a call has a built in bias.
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Just gotta battle through it like everyone else.
Couple penalties I saw last night. Marner gets a slight slash on the side of his butt that doesn't affect the play at all. Matthews gets a microscopic crosscheck. The refs can't get their hands up fast enough in some places of the world. Maybe a difference in gravitation force out east.
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Its all part of the NHL's script. There is a script.
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Honestly though, I don't disagree. It's not conspiratorial either (I loathe to use that specific word for how frequently it gets tossed around, in a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes), but rooted in facts, as evidenced by all sorts of scandals and revelations in the recent history of sport.
There's a great podcast I recommend people listen to called "The Whistleblower". It's about the NBA, and covers some of the more contentious, close playoff series of the past 20-30 years, and takes a deep dive into officiating. Reffing has always been a major issue in the NBA. It investigates specific incidents in certain games and series that are suspicious if not downright obvious and inexcusable. David Stern and the league most certainly had—and still have, under Silver—an agenda and the majority of people turn a blind eye, because we get caught up with literally everything else. Every so often you get a team like the Raptors who, once in a blue moon, have everything go right ("the stars align") and who can break the mold, overcome. In the NBA it is particularly egregious and obvious. But the networks and the league control the platforms, the narratives, the flow of information and much of what happens across the league, and they work together to make it all work in their favour(s). The refs are agents of the league. They (league executives, media outlets, advertisers and league officials) are not necessarily all 'in cahoots' with each other, coordinating through some grand clandestine communications system, but they all have a the same goal: make lots money (by favouring certain teams and markets over others). They do so by covering (or omitting) who and what gets discussed, who gets the calls in crucial moments, etc.
The same issues apply to the NHL. These are tightly controlled, private, opaque, old boys organizations where the bottom line is money. On top of money (eyeballs, attendance, marketing, exposure), NHL officials most certainly are biased (apart from their fallibility), probably more so than in any other sport. The Colin Campbell scandal from a few years ago was absolutely absurd, and confirmed much of what we already know – that executives and officials from the league are friends with people in the media; and that they share informations, thoughts and opinions about stuff with each other. That was one of the most ridiculous, most blatant scandals in recent memory and it came and went like it was nothing. The media barely recognized it.
It's not rocket science. The Oilers are pretty much powerless in a situation like this. So yes, we need to get better as a squad top to bottom (I'm MUCH more hopeful and optimistic than others here), but the officiating—as a result of quiet, perhaps even unspoken *wink wink* orders—has an mega impact and in many ways can control the fate of an organization. A team like Edmonton has to overcome the sun, the moon, the stars, the zebras, the league... it's no joke man!
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Yup, it has always been this way. We were very lucky in that the 80's Oilers were so good compared to the rest of the league they were able to repeatedly overcome the horribly biased refereeing in the playoffs back then. The Islanders, Flyers and Bruins all benefited and got away with lots of crap back but the Oilers still prevailed.
With McDavid I think it is even worse - the league is prepared to overlook just about anything to make sure a bigger market is successful. As for this year - I think they believed the Oilers would be a tougher challenge than the Jets for the makebeLeafs and we saw the result (see pics above).
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