If you think the officiating was over zealous in Acadia it was really one sided in Halifax tonight. Yes, UNB got frustrated and it wasn't very hard to see why. 9 penalties were called on UNB totalling 28 minutes while SAINT Mary's had 3 penalties totalling 6 minutes.
The "Flavour of the weekend" seems to be the new 2 and 2 call for daring to question a call which I observed 3 times in the 2 games.
Even worse, if you take a stick to the face and question why there was no penalty the punishment seems to be 10 minutes.
The officiating was inconsistent in both games. Friday, it seemed like they would call everything, but missed a few times UNB were on receiving end ... but of course they didn't miss handing unsportsmanlikes for V-Reds barking about non-calls.
Saturday, it looked like they decided that they were "going to let the boys play" which played into SMU's hands as they did their best to disrupt the V-Reds. However they didn't miss the retaliations or chirping over non-calls.
That being said, UNB needs to do a better job of sucking it up. As hard as it is to take it, they have to realize teams are going to do their best to get under their skin, (since they can't skate with them for 60 minutes) and complaining to the refs is just getting them 2's and 10's.
I'm sure it didn't help that their red hot power play went ice cold on the weekend against a couple of hot goalies. That had to be frustrating.
Again, they need to turn the weekend into a teachable moment. Losing focus plays into the other teams' hands. No one is going to give the top team any slack.
Time to man up.