Originally Posted by
Some_Arrogant_Jerk
Come on man... Snapshots cannot properly diagnose whether a play is good or bad in this sport. Single pictures don't tell the same story a video does...and a split second never tells the story properly. Someone could omit a different, more damning picture or they could show something borderline but misleading or out of context. You need the whole video or nothing. The game moves so fast and there's are many things to consider. Perceivable intent, size difference, physics of the plays, where the puck is, the initiator of contact, and more.
To me, though, neither of these things in the series deserve suspensions. The league in their progressive pussification likes to throw suspensions around like candy. They dont understand or care that in the playoffs, a suspension should only be in the most dire situations.
But nbody got mcsorley'd or had got stomped on like what Chris Simon did. If sergei and hilsendager and hobbs get three games for their incidents, then clearly there has to be some merit in calling things unbalanced, since provorov or that whiner turncoat duke got zilch in contrast. With hobbs, They didn't determine intent, they didn't consider what pilon was doing...they just throw suspensions when there's an injury no matter how minor. And they had a game deciding 5 min pp on top of that.
One last thing. I know luber is paid to maintain his allegiance ans therefore will say these things...and as people have seen it is very fashionable to lynch those who indict officiating for changing the game...but refs do have a deciding affect. The Hobbs 5 min call by itself cost the pats that game...and the (3) suspension(s) potentially cripples the team for the next game and the series. Never mind the fact that many argue it was unjust.
......You know well enough that People have been saying these things about mccrimmon manipulating and the Wheaties suckering people for years now. And as many of you do, you just get brushed it off as sour grapes. I think eventually you have to contemplate that if almost everybody says the same thing and you receive this complaint decisedly more often, then not everybody is out to lunch...or at the very least it ceases to be an outlandish claim