Are the NHL refs blind?
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O. EngMarch 11, 2022 (5:01 PM)
Last night, Avalanche forward Gabriel Landeskog started his press conference with these eerie words.
"In 11 years, I've never sat and talked about referees in a press conference ever."
This outburst was out of character for the Avs captain and just summed up another awful officiating night in the NHL.
Landeskog's comments come after a 2-0 loss against the Carolina Hurricanes. With 5:50 left in the game, Hurricane player Nino Niederreiter hooks Nazem Kadri up the ice. A clear violation, but no call on the ice.
"We're arguing it's a hook. They're saying Naz is flopping, we're arguing it's still a hook whether he sold the call or not you can look at the video and the stick is in his waist and that's why he loses the puck. I think it's unfortunate. Sometimes it's time for players to step up and speak their truth."
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Auston Matthews was also incensed towards the referees after he had his stick grabbed in OT by Jakob Chychrun resulting in a goal.
Ovi also got away with a blatant hook on Zach Hyman resulting in a Capitals tying goal moments later. All these calls happened within a span of two nights.
Do you think refs plan to all make bad calls on the same day?
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