I don’t disagree that both are wrong- but my understanding is that fixing is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of the game. Goal of game management is to “even the playing field” which ultimately leads to influencing the outcome of the game, but not intentionally.
Game management is exactly what it sounds, managing the game, one game. So two teams out there, game management isn't calling every single slash, but if one team slashes and you call it, that's the standard for that game, supposedly, so when you see the other team do it, that's the standard, you call it, but if it's a tap....not up to the standard, you don't call it. It is still penalty by the book, but it didn't reach the standard you had previously set.
That's what this comment was....I didn't see the game, so I don't know if it was getting chippy, or what the feel was etc, but it was a penalty, just not up to the standard, thats what he meant by, not much there, ie, its a penalty, that maybe gets let go a lot, but for some reason he was looking for a NSH call..... on the face of it, it's stupid, and just looking at the box score, there's no "management" to be had, but if he felt that in the 1st, NSH was getting more and more emboldened by non-calls, he could have been looking for the next one, to settle them down...that's the management.
