Was also at the game last night and it is impossible to overstate how BAD the officiating was. Or continues to be as it’s now a 3 game trend.
The Wild are getting royally screwed on botched calls like the Duhaime instigator call.
The Avs were flopping all over the ice like Italian soccer players trying to sell tripping and interference calls and never a single embellishment call. There was also multiple uncalled slashes and crosschecks away from the puck, it’s incredible to me that professional officials can’t make the proper calls. And it’ll only get worse from here for the Wild because now we get “playoff officating” which means that crosschecking ceases to be a peanalty anywhere on the ice.
Looking forward to midnight hockey as the playoffs start. Amazing how the NHL is run by such a bunch of retreads that they can’t figure out that the audience would be bigger if the games were shown in prime time.