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You’ve probably read the phrase “Refereeing is a joke” a couple of times in the last week or so.
This year, it’s not the opinion of one team’s fans in their living room, but what seems to be a league-wide consensus. It’s hard. It’s pretty hard to figure out – from game to game and team to team – what constitutes an infraction and what doesn’t.
In the Canadiens-Capitals series, examples of incongruity abounded. Tom Wilson’s blow to