‘Tis the season for a seasonal break. Tonight the goal grinch was stalking the Nucks stockings and stuffing them with nothing. The Grinch works for the NHL refs.
When the [redacted] refs get it in their [redacted] [redacted] brains the idea that it’s better to let the players settle things on the ice, rather than calling blatant penalties so as to not effect the outcome of the game - has a direct effect on the outcome of the game.
It’s not hard to see. Either the refs do their job all the time and get paid as full time professionals - or they enforce the rules at their discretion and get paid a modest discretionary sum.