No. I am a Hockey fan who is not team specific. I personally follow 11 teams and can truly care a less who wins or loses. However, I do care if the contest is fair or not. The NHL always jumps in and intervenes in the playoffs by instating an officiating handicap. If you watch as many games as I do - follow as many teams and literally watch hundreds of games a year, though some are watched at double the speed. You would lose the team specific blinders and see the whole picture. I don't mind a little dirty play, its hockey. Missing a few calls is also hockey. However, when a team is allowed to **** another team in the house, or box, and get away with it shift after shift is wrong. (Area in front of the net between face off circles, or dots.) Especially when the other team isn't allowed to match play. The official's job is to keep the match fair, and not give a team an edge by lop sided enforcement.

The Red Wings started clean and started playing dirty dirty in the second. I said it before, and I will say it again, the Red Wings cannot beat the Hawks in heads-up play.
If the game is called fairly the Wings will still lose because they cannot take the forwards out of the equation without a penalty. (Hooking and holding, Hooking and tackling, tripping, and breaking sticks with a slash, all things that went unchecked in games 2-4 and half of game 5)
When the Wings get away with monkey business, it forces the Hawks to take shots from the outside, shots easily soaked up by Howard. Most attempts at crashing the net ended with no call tripping. That's like you, and I having a 5-mile go-kart race and me making you push your kart. Besides there is no other team in the playoffs even getting away with 1/3 the monkey business.

When a skilled team is matched against an unskilled team, the unskilled team increases monkey business and hits in an attempt at getting the other team out of their game. The monkey business usually doesn't last too long in a game because it usually backfires when the offenders get tossed in the box. (Which didn't happen at all in game 2-4 and half of 5)

The Wings need to stop the monkey business and vastly increase their hits. If a team can virtually play a whole game without rules, its opponent should also be allowed to do so. "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." Or is it?

Well, how about Abdelkader pinning Keith to the ice and leisurely whacking him. Then he continued to do so well after the whistle. They pulled him off Keith, and no roughing penalty was called. Now if Keith defended himself, I guarantee Keith would have been tossed in the box. It sounds fair to me.

After the r-a-p-i-n-g-s from game 2 through 4, the Hawks players should all be allowed to give three slashes with Subzero's stick, then I feel they would be even.

Hmmmm.....you must be a Hawks fan....and what's your comment on that no boarding call on Franzen in game three that resulted in a Chicago goal. The bad officiating goes both ways, my friend.

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