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@mattsmartsmarns

* Grace /21, Canada * mostly Leafs!!

i think the odds of replacing dubas with somebody better are very low. and i think the odds of making the team noticeably worse are very high. this is how it goes.

it’s so frustrating to watch refs always call the innocuous penalties in playoffs. it just feels like they’re spitting directly in your face when they refuse to penalize guys trying to take each others heads off, but a delay of game call is the shit that finally merits a penalty. like, yeah, it’s technically the right call, but great to see basic player safety can’t merit the two minutes that a puck over glass can.

also like. i know we all complain about the refs all the time. i know complaining about officiating is a stereotype about sports fans and everyone rolls their eyes and sometimes they do get too much flack but- idk if this is just me, but this playoffs - and i mean every series - it really seems like this is some of the worst if not the worst officiating i’ve seen as a hockey fan. there have been so many missed calls in so many games across the matchups and not just missed calls but missed calls that seriously injured players. there has been some extremely violent shit that’s gone completely unpenalized and some severe injuries that got the aggressor handed a mild slap on the wrist. something has to give. i’d say it has to change or someone’s gonna be seriously hurt, but it’s too late for that. we’ve already got concussions, ‘undisclosed injuries,’ a broken neck. what is it gonna take for there to be a reckoning with dops. does someone have to die? is that what it’s gonna cost for the department of fucking player safety to do its job?