It's amazing that JG yells, berates, and just whines at refs every single game. The commentators even mention it. He still gets a lot of calls.
McDavid shuts his mouth and has a hard time.
I'm starting to have a theory that pint sized players that go down when touched, and that don't require much or any threshold of force to go down are being granted a benefit of doubt related to their size and propensity to go down given all other players are bigger physical objects.
Similarly lots of criticism Lucic is getting penalties just for apparently being stronger. Theres been 2-3 entirely legit hits that he's got called for and against guys that are pretty easy to send flying.
pint sized players should not get disproportionate calls just because they are tiny and suffer the same thresholds of physical contact against them. The mere difference is their size does not withstand the same threshold of handling that other players would stand up to.
I'm afraid we're seeing the same error at work here with Yamamoto and in which case he should just be told to go down everytime, or maybe is.
Through enforcement the NHL appears to penalize strong, hard players while rewarding those that cannot survive contact and that do go down easy. Are the NHL officials correctly interpreting penalties or compensating for relative physics..
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