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Ref-kun
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Caught another slow-mo replay of the penalty again last night. Looks like Richards did make contact with his shoulder, but the knee was there too, and from what we saw Kovalev's fulcrum was Richards' knee when he was going down. I still would have called the penalty, it was excessive of Richards to throw the knee out, and it looked blatant enough to warrant a trip to the box.
Thing is, you can't just stop calling borderline penalties with < 2 minutes left in a 1 goal game just because it might put one team in a bad position. You can bitch all you want about "giving the game away" and blatant favouritism, but everyone will always see the refs as favouring the other team as soon as a call doesn't go their way. This thread is living proof of that, with everyone accusing every team of having the refs on their side. A staggering majority of calls boil down to the judgement of the Ref, it's just that simple. Officials are, for the most part, neutral when calling a game (with a few notable exceptions, though I'm not going to name names). On the ice, we don't have the bird's eye camera angle and omniscience that viewers at home do, and when two seperate incidents happen where one is called as a penalty and the other isn't, it's usually because of the angle we see it at. A light shove from one angle can look like a vicious cross check from another, and if you have a serious issue with refs making snap judgement calls in the heat of the moment, well, go watch some fucking football instead of the fastest game on Earth.
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