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 welcometotheOC
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Registered: April 2010
Location: Also, sadly, Cowtown
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 30 March 2025 19:02 |
| NetBOG wrote on Sun, 30 March 2025 00:14 |
Notice after a few game where the refs call it down the middle, Leon comes back and the PP’s disappear. Game management is real.
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Noticed same thing.. once it was known that the Oilers power play was next to useless.. refs all of a sudden were free to start calling the actual infractions against the opposition.. which proves they aren't "missing" the calls .. just "refusing" to make the calls in an effort to manage/impact the score by way of penalty calls.. reasons for it could be multiple.
The fact this league is so deep up to their necks in the gambling industry it's a surprise no one has investigated and/or made an issue of the infraction standard consistency and its effect on betting outcomes.
Doesn't help that the NHL broadcast holders are instructed not to criticize/question the ref calls with risk of losing future rights retention.. and/or replacement of on air pundits
If the NFL experienced this inconsistency in infraction calls, the entire broadcast and podcast industry would be calling it out.
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I notice the same thing every year. The Oilers get jobbed the first 10 games or so, get relatively fair refereeing (on and off, mind you) until early January, then as the end of January comes, they get more and more 1 powerplay games…. leading to a number of zero PP games as you get into March (during this period the opposition usually still gets 3 to 6 per game). NHL is so corrupt …. but then again the 80’s Oilers were just so good relative to the rest of the league, they simply overcame the biased game management ( those series vs the Bruins were ridiculous with the tackling/hooking/holding/etc that Boston used to get away with).
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