Playoff Officiating

[Megustaelhockey]

It's not controversial to say that we are NOT in a golden age of on-ice officiating in the league right now.

Have there been any storylines or particularly egregious calls or missed calls that come to mind for fans of teams in the playoffs?

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[Canadienna]

There has never been a golden era of on-ice officiating.

The calls that really stick with a fanbase tend to be series deciding ones and seeing as we're on game 1 of series 1, I don't anticipate too many people are upset. Yet.

 

[SettlementRichie10]

There are no such things as “series deciding calls.”

If you lose a seven games series over one bad call, you weren’t going to win, anyway.

 

[miscs75]

Timmy “Greg Louganis” Stutzle was on the ice for Carolina based on the flopping they did in hopes of selling calls. Thankfully the MSG feed didn’t get clogged up by Rod yelling at the refs in hopes of getting a few extra power plays.

 

[IronCladCane]

Assuming OP is an Isles fan they always whine about officiating.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Assuming OP is an Isles fan they always whine about officiating.

Incorrect assumption.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Assuming OP is an Isles fan they always whine about officiating.

When your series thread and GDT is flooded with neutral fans telling you your team is a bunch of divers, you can drop the act that it’s Isles fans just bitching and accept your team is soft

 

[IronCladCane]

When your series thread and GDT is flooded with neutral fans telling you your team is a bunch of divers, you can drop the act that it’s Isles fans just bitching and accept your team is soft

Personally don't care

Making threads to whine and complain, cute maybe consider they were make up calls for all the crap you got away with.

Lmfao the Isles aren't getting penalized less than 3x a game. Maybe get better at killing pelaties otherwise this will be a very short series.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

As I said in the NYI-CAR thread, it’s amazing how much the refs impact these series. Every series in the last 15 years has been decided by the refs actively being terrible against the team that lost. Just ask that team’s fans.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

I think the Rags Caps game is a good indicator of frustrating officiating. Penalty fest in the first, same stuff let go in the second. No real rhyme or reason.

Just be consistent throughout and don’t manage the game. If team X is up 3-0 and team Y commits a penalty, call it. Don’t not call it and then when team X does the same infraction then you call it just because Y is down 3-0. I hate that.

Personally don't care

Making threads to whine and complain, cute maybe consider they were make up calls for all the crap you got away with.

Lmfao the Isles aren't getting penalized less than 3x a game. Maybe get better at killing pelaties otherwise this will be a very short series.

It wasn’t an Islander fan and you care enough to assume it was and comment about it.

 

[IronCladCane]

I think the Rags Caps game is a good indicator of frustrating officiating. Penalty fest in the first, same stuff let go in the second. No real rhyme or reason.

Just be consistent throughout and don’t manage the game. If team X is up 3-0 and team Y commits a penalty, call it. Don’t not call it and then when team X does the same infraction then you call it just because Y is down 3-0. I hate that.


It wasn’t an Islander fan and you care enough to assume it was and comment about it.

My only complaint about officiating is that there is no consistency.... win or lose this sucks. Way too much in the NHL isn't even a judgement call it's oh we have to keep the penalties close on both sides and it results in egregious things being ignored and pathetic that shouldn't be a penalty calls.

That said... as bad as it is make up calls are a real thing and overall in a seven game series I don't think it alters the winner.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

My only complaint about officiating is that there is no consistency.... win or lose this sucks. Way too much in the NHL isn't even a judgement call it's oh we have to keep the penalties close on both sides and it results in egregious things being ignored and pathetic that shouldn't be a penalty calls.

That said... as bad as it is make up calls are a real thing and overall in a seven game series I don't think it alters the winner.

I agree, I’m watching this game now and it took me out of it in the first, I want to watch hockey and it’s a penalty parade on ticky tack calls. Second was boring and there’s not much going on here in the third. So overall not entertaining but the life was snuffed out early by the stripes.

 

[TatteredTornNFrayed]

So I'm not accused of whining about calls against my team, I'll point out my team hasn't even played yet.

But I think ESPN casting the Tasmanian Devil character as the official in the animated game last week is appropriate, cause who has any clue what they are gonna call at any particular time.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

The softness of the calls makes me wonder if there was a league meeting or they are on performance enhancing drugs

 

[IronCladCane]

Lol just lol

 

[Gardner McKay]

Refs have been fine, quit your whinging. Worst excuse in sports

Quit your whinging about a fair thread. Please and thanks

 

[UnSandvich]

Lol just lol

Out of curiosity, was it perhaps the team that touched the puck?

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Lol just lol

Wasn't this like 9 years ago?

 

[Unsustainable]

Timmy “Greg Louganis” Stutzle was on the ice for Carolina based on the flopping they did in hopes of selling calls. Thankfully the MSG feed didn’t get clogged up by Rod yelling at the refs in hopes of getting a few extra power plays.

 

[God]

I sort of wish someone took the time to meticulously keep track of weak calls. I felt like a lot of them were an effort to even up the number of powerplays, which is a natural human thing to do but ultimately flawed given that some teams will take more penalties than other (and really, it's usually the team that's chasing the game) and it gets worse when that team does an actual infraction and the penalties are no longer "even" on both sides.

But I only have anecdotal evidence from some pretty horribly officiated Canucks games this season, and a lot of them were at the hands of the NHL's preferred finals ref.. therefore any series officiated by Kelly Sutherland is probably gonna be terrible.

 

[Crease]

Penalties are dependent on the crew, and even then the crew’s approach changes game to game.

 

[Profet]

You know what grinds my gears? Dudes getting thrown out of faceoffs with no explanations to fans.

Does any other sport let officials/linesmen dictate the game with no explanation to fans?

 

[Derailed75]

Timmy “Greg Louganis” Stutzle was on the ice for Carolina based on the flopping they did in hopes of selling calls. Thankfully the MSG feed didn’t get clogged up by Rod yelling at the refs in hopes of getting a few extra power plays.

Canes fans whine about calls was the narrative before the series started.

 

[Shareefruck]

Personally/anecdotally, I do feel like reffing has been particularly uncharacteristically awful this season, from the games I watched.

 

[Holocene]

Lol just lol

you know this is from 2015 right?