billybudd
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- Feb 1, 2012
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They've got some gritty players, I'm not really that surprised to be honest.
Yeah, but that's not where the discrepancy is coming from.
It's less what's called against them than it is what's let go against the other team. Malkin will get a marginal hook in the offensive zone on a stick lift (something that a guy like Zetterberg or Datsyuk would NOT be called on)...fine, whatever.
But on the next powerplay, you'll have an opposition player grab Martin's stick and throw it, pitchfork Goc's skates out from under him or hook Sutter to the ice on a breakaway and...nothing. Offensive zone penalties when the team committing them is up a man have normally been as close to automatic as it gets.
I'm loathe to engage in conspiracies, but something's up since the beginning of November.
Best analogy I can give is that when it's the Penguins doing something, the stripes are acting like they're in day one of an obstruction crackdown and when it's something being done to the Penguins, they're calling the game as if it's overtime in a game 7.