Is NHL officiating bad? Trick question, I know. Because viscerally, most people who follow the NHL as a supporter of a single team would almost universally answer, yes, it is.
When people are asked to consider officiating in the abstract, they usually begin by saying they just want it to be consistent. They want a penalty in the first minute to be a penalty in the last minute. And when it comes to the most controversial moments, which nowadays usually involve what is or isn’t goalie interference, they wonder: How come no one ever knows what the final decision is going to be?
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And the easy answer is, goaltender inference —
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