Are NHL referees on the take?

They are consistently inconsistent - I'll give them that. But as yet I have little reason to believe that is due to any underhanded, closed-door dealings.

But it wouldn't surprise me either.

it is undesirable sufficient that bettman is destroying our sport, and now we are compelled to attend to referees identifying playoff video games! i'm furious. The geese could desire to have paid off the zebras... that sequence is a damn shaggy dog tale. Calgary replaced into giftwrapped a sport 3 win moreso on a sequence of non-calls yet there have been some questionable calss besides.. like that goaltender interference DIVE! CRAP The rangers are dominating atlanta standard, there have been some shady calls yet no longer something that has effected the sport (in what little of the sequence I actual have seen thusfar) Nashville getting away with being the 'gangsters of the NHL', bunch of thugs. Public accountability for the officers is the respond. If Jordin "bigface" Tootoo gets 5 video games for a suckerpunch, Bob the linesman gets 3 for a blatant fake call that immediately effects a playoff sport and you remember between the officers that didnt make the decrease this 365 days. additionally they could desire to be fined. Dig into their pocketbooks and spot how briskly they start up calling the video games extremely and precise. additionally there could desire to be a video good who comments each and each call made on the ice and has authority to override a bad call. Or a blatant non call. The zebras shouldnt confirm who wins and loses.

NHL refs are probably the best officials in professional sports.

Check out baseball and figure out where different umps have their strike zone or even with the same ump from inning to inning.

Ever try to figure out travelling in basketball. How many steps do some of these guys take on the way to a slam dunk?

Yes refs make mistakes but hockey is fast and rough and the replays almost always confirm that the refs get the right call.

The oldest and most tiring rant in all sports is to blame the officials after your team disappoints.

They were pretty consistent in the Pens/Flyers game tonight. Can't complain about those last 2 penalties. Thems the breaks.