I made an observation in the GDT yesterday that the referees are far more likely to call penalties on teams that are winning a game. I'm wondering if a statistical analysis is available for either the Flyers or the entire league that shows the breakdown of penalty calls with respect to the score of the game.
I want to see if the stats are as wildly skewed as I would expect them to be.
It seems like on a nightly basis, regardless of which teams you watch, the referees will watch 4 penalties on the losing team with no call, just waiting for the winning team to commit any minor infraction to give the losing team a better chance to tie it and go to the sweet, sweet entertaining OT.
Every game I watch that is close in the 3rd seems to be called with the purpose of creating late drama.
I want to see if the stats are as wildly skewed as I would expect them to be.
It seems like on a nightly basis, regardless of which teams you watch, the referees will watch 4 penalties on the losing team with no call, just waiting for the winning team to commit any minor infraction to give the losing team a better chance to tie it and go to the sweet, sweet entertaining OT.
Every game I watch that is close in the 3rd seems to be called with the purpose of creating late drama.