Oh come on.... It's been like this since the beginning of time. Refs putting their whistle away in the playoffs is nothing new. But now, because the diminutive Habs are getting pushed around, it's a crisis that needs reform????
Tom Wilson waves hello. Or flexes I guess.Fans like to complain about things. As time has progressed, we have new, more visible ways, of expressing dissatisfaction.
The refs are doing fine overall, imo. Expand video replay, though. An incorrectly called delay of game is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Be proactive instead of reactive on that issue.
Fans like to complain about things. As time has progressed, we have new, more visible ways, of expressing dissatisfaction.
The refs are doing fine overall, imo. Expand video replay, though. An incorrectly called delay of game is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Be proactive instead of reactive on that issue.
Oh come on.... It's been like this since the beginning of time. Refs putting their whistle away in the playoffs is nothing new. But now, because the diminutive Habs are getting pushed around, it's a crisis that needs reform????
Thing is, most people want the teams and not the refs to decide big games. So in most sports (definitely the NFL and NHL for instance) there are different standards as the playoffs go further. The problem is the "let them play" officiating can't allow for egregious fouls, because then the game gets out of hand. Proper officiating will let them play but still call the egregious fouls, but sometimes they miss the egregious fouls because they're letting too much go and then the game gets out of hand.
I get that each ref is different and will interpret the rules in his own slightly different way or might miss a call or make a phantom call every now and then and that's fine, they are human after all and having 2 officials should help balance that out in theory. Having different refs with different ideas of what a penalty is AND it changes throughout the game AND it changes as the season goes on.. absolute mess imo
- Remove game management. It shouldn't matter if team A has 5 penalties and team B has 0, or if it's the third period or overtime, next infraction on either side should get called
- Keep the rules consistent throughout the season & playoffs. Having a new set of relaxed rules in the playoffs makes no sense, teams that play a certain way all season and do well are suddenly trash (or vice-versa) come playoffs because the rules changed is just stupid
They will adapt their game too! Why do everybody assume players are stupid?
This really isn't all that difficult to fix. Score every single official for their performance every single game they work. If they fall below and acceptable score threshold remove them.
Yes. Officiating is hard and as has been mentioned many times, we are experiencing the best of the best officials. And it’s not a good result. That tells me the system is poor and needs improving. Get the refs off the ice. They take up space and it’s impossible for them to see what’s going on skating in and out of the fray. If they’re sitting above the ice in static positions they can each (or more can be added) be given a sector of the ice to monitor. I think this is a worst a first step toward improving the officiating.players should also stop embellishing. Officiating is hard enough.
Chris Lee burner account?I don't agree there is anything wrong with the referees of today. Their job is impossible for an outsider to judge. They communicate with players and explain their decisions to them, if necessary. To captains, specifically.
You're just looking at isolated calls. But nothing in hockey happens in a vacuum.
If anything, NHL refs should get paid more. The pressure of the job is huge and the stakes are high. They need to get paid to make it all worth it. And to attract more competent talent, and to make them keep at it.
In courtrooms, the judge is the highest paid person. In an NHL rink, he is the lowest paid person.
What you thinking punching someone in the face should be a penalty, or something?There is clear incentive for Vegas to do well. It's not incompetence but incentives.
Saw this with Canucks Bruins 2011. The incentive is for American teams to have an advantage over Canadian teams, in order to grow the game in the biggest market
Considering these refs missed some obvious elbows to the head, punches are subject to review as well.What you thinking punching someone in the face should be a penalty, or something?
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It's something I quickly thought of. You need star players to be noticeably better than their counterparts out there. 1-2 big names that normies can recognize per teamThere is clear incentive for Vegas to do well. It's not incompetence but incentives.
Saw this with Canucks Bruins 2011. The incentive is for American teams to have an advantage over Canadian teams, in order to grow the game in the biggest market.
Even with the obv riggedness of VGK's run, NHL officiating is not the worst of major sports. All of them have issues.
What can help is make it player centric instead of market centric. Hard to do with hockey when parity is real due to the nature of this sport... Perhaps have fouls where minor 3+ holding and grabbing = 1 power play and any player with 3 is out of the game. Also no stoppages. A linesman simply has his hands up. Also get rid of linesmen on the ice
I've been saying this forever.Crazy line of thinking here. Given the frequency of some infractions, and how consequential a 2 minute powerplay can be, maybe we need to rethink the punishment for a penalty? Refs get involved in game management because they don't want to influence the game too much one way or another.
To call the game fairly, what if there was a simple and quick punishment for smaller infractions, say, give the other team possession of the puck or a distanced shot at net the way soccer does it? That way, teams don't get away with smaller infractions, and it system isn't abused as you can still reward 2 minute penalties.
This is a full nuclear option, and hockey wouldn't have any semblance to the traditional game. But I do think there's something to the 2 minute penalty that causes refs to get involved in game management, and also have their mistakes magnified.