K1984
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- Feb 7, 2008
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Connor got angry at the refs for one brief second years ago and still pays for it today. I don’t believe for a second that he would get more calls if he started whining, it would be the opposite. Watching how many times he is infracted without calls is just disgusting.
This is definitely true and fair.
I just look at the Wayne Gretzky's of ref working over the past 10 years or so and almost all of them have the combined element of diving and over the top whining if the diving doesn't pay dividends. Doughty, Pavelski, Mackinnon, Marchand, formerly Getzlaf, are poster boys of this and it works for them. However, you are right that conventional wisdom doesn't usually apply to us so it would probably result in us getting hammered worse than we do already.