2 things.
#1.
The 2 Referee System has proven to be an utter failure for a variety of reasons. It has had a regressive impact on the overall Product. It has
denegrated the NHL Product it has not enhanced it.
One Referee can better balance the management of the Game ....and really Referees are Managing the Game....their job is NOT TO CATCH AND CALL EVERY
SINGLE FOUL ON THE ICE..... it is to loiter in and amongst the competitors looking for randomly committed fouls that are impactful.....in an average
NHL Hockey game there are TECHNICALLY BY-THE-BOOK literally HUNDREDS of fouls committed routinely between both Rosters....this is an inherrant part of
the Game of Hockey much like it is in Lacrosse....a Referee manages the Game between both Rosters by informing the Coaches Pre-Game of how the League
has asked him to interpret specific parts of the Rulebook....yes the League has to also Manage the game via the Reffs.... so during different parts of
different Seasons depending on how he League wishes to manage the Overall product the Officials will be consistantly focusing on the interpretation of
the Rule book that naturally SUPPORTS their overall mandate as directed by the Commisioner and his Team.
Under these and other core value dynamics a Single Official System works OPTIMALLY....simply because its not about FOUR EYES BEING BETTER THAN TWO
EYES....because REMEMBER we are not looking to call every single foul of the hundreds that happen by proxy every game....so 4 eyes ARE NOT BETTER than
2 eyes are....what is better is a constant consistant feel and connection between the Officials management focus and the 2 Teams Playing the Game on
any given night....this is what provides seamless balanced game management dynamics that provide and present a better more value driven NHL
Product.
A lot of People have tried to make money by applying crossover principals when it comes to Pro Sports....these crossovers do not often work
out....they more often than not underperform or outright fail catastrophiclly.... they are usually numbers based...stats based and driven....this
screws up NHL hockey on every level....including the Officiating and League Management levels....some little suckhole counting beans and telling
fictional stories should not be in a position to direct the Growth Health and Evolution of NHL Hockey.
Yes.....we ALL KNOW AS FANS THAT THE OILERS MUST BY PROXY END UP WITH AT LEAST 3-4 MORE PPs THAN ANY OPPONENT JUST BECAUSE OF MCdAVID AND
DRAISAITLE.... if this doesnt happen we al know by the eye test that the Reffere is CHEATING....that he is stepping over the line and screwing the
Oilers blatantly so they dont win ....and this is surely what we have seen for far to long in the NHL....this and CHEATING to support the Leafs and
Habs win .....blatant obvious stuff .
Fact is this....every NHL Team knows what a Special Team Edmonton is... they also know there are Big market Teams like Toronto tryiing their arses off
to compete with those same Oilers who happen to be a GENERATIONAL TEAM AS WE CAN ALL NW SEE.....soooo.....forget about it man.... not the silly Leafs
and conjob liar Dubas or any other NHL Team is ever skating on even terms with the Oilers for the next 3-4 years....simple..we all know it.....but....
this doesnt mean the Reffs have to screw the Oilers and cheat to hold them back from running rampant like the Dynasty Oilers did....the League itself
is responsible for trying to STOP THE OILERS FROM DOMINATING COMPLETELY....
Solution is obvious.....with the exception of the reigning SC Champs ....the NHL Teams not named Oilers....must all accept that they will end up being
3-4 PPs down every time they face the Oilers.....what this will do is 2 things....make Teams open up and roll the dice every night promoting a highly
entertaining super-product that will break records again and excite all NHL Fans OR it will make Teams turtle up and play absolutely defensively
trying to just survive mistake fee and hope they can kill 3-4 extra penalties in a 1-0 game........odds are Teams will open up andGun it out with the
Oilers....thisis how the NHL is SUPPOSSED TO EVOLVE.....into a more offensive excitig product.
Bottom line....dump 1 Referee IMMEDIATLY and re-install the face-off rule when pucks are pinned on the walls....and allow the NHL to evolve freely and
fairly which means that we ALL HAVE TO ACCEPT AND ENJOY WHAT THESE OILERS BRING TO THE GAME ITSELF.....we are privilaged to get to see this kind of
NHL Hockey it has been nearly 30 yeras of stagnating degrading NHL Hockey....now things are flying again and exciting again.
Yes.....we have arrived at the point of no return now.....its time to give the Oilers their due....to let them run with it.....to do the right thing
and consistently manage games fairly as the Fans see it.....that means no one complains and the OPilers seriously get 3-4 more penalties per game than
their opponents consistently game in and game out....as it should be.....and the rest of the NHL Teams have to accept that they will likely end up
with exactly the same number of PPs as their Opponents get....and Toronto is a part of the rest of the League as is Montreal....so no more cheating
for those 2 Teams they can sink or swim playing with the masses .......
McDavid is capable of 200 points a Season if the NHL just lets the game evolve....and an entire Generation of skilled players will also begin hitting
100 points per Season now.....because of the Games forced evolution back to high energy offense....done by Moma2 over 13 years....not because of the
retarded regressive rule changes and game static caused by Bettman et al.
Lose a Reff.....bring back the Faceoffs they generate more Offense you idiots....and start calling 3-4 more Penalties against the Oiler Opponents very
ight....we ALL KNOW ITS FAIR and we all know HOW MUCH BETTER CONNOR AND LEON ARE so we KNOW ITS JUSTIFIED....you are NOT CHEATING to call 3-4 more for
the Oilers .......you are cheating if you fail to call 3-4 more for the Oilers....and EveryFan very well knows that...do NOT treat NHL Fans like
idiots.
#2
The Official caught on tape....did not infer he had done anything wrong.....he said he was waiting for a Team t commit a fair foul so he could call it
early in the Period....maybe the game was getting out of hand physially and he was hoping that would tone things down....maybe he other Refferee made
a blatant mistake that couLd not be taken back so this Referee was simply hoping that THE GAMES DYNAMICS WOULD NATURALLY BRING another fair foul THAT
would be comMitted by he Team so the shortchanged one might get an even-up call..........................he DID NOT SAY HE HAD NOT THAT HE INTENDED TO
MAKE A CHEAT OR UNFAIR OR UNINIATED PENALTY CALL....TO CREAT AN EVEN-UP SITUATION.....he just did not say that....maybe asking him would show us the
full context....but it definately did not sound to m like he was intending to or had in fact made a cheat or unfair or uncalled for penalty.....lets
be real....he was speaking in 3rd Party off the record as an external perspective Fan to the Bench......not in 2nd Party as an Official....he was
assuring the Coach that he was watching the games management needs evolve and was aware of the situation and gameperspective that particualr Coach was
carrying....remember the other Coach has an opposite feeling about things at the same time....so the Official has to manage and balance things
differenty with each Bench .
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