Is it my imagination or are they dishing out some remarkably bad obviously biased (perhaps even taking bribed) penalties?
Can anyone tell me if some organized gamblers trying to influence the outcome of games by bribing the officials?
*&^_&!!@#$
A GOALIE
2007-12-09 15:59:40 · 10 answers · asked by Just me 2 4 in Sports ➔ Hockey
EDIT:
Lubers25 I like what you said. Just watch some of the close calls though. I'm telling you there is something going on! Perhaps NOT gambling but really bad calls, obviously influencing the outcome of the games.
It won't generate more goals per se, but it will determine who will win or not. You say there isn't much gambling on hockey these days? Then what was Rick Tocchet doing? If he was doing it how many more NHL'ers are in the game? ANYone who thinks there isn't much going on is in DENIAL eh?!
2007-12-10 10:34:14 · update #1
Gamblers are not influencing the outcome of hockey games. For starters, there is not enough money generated through hockey gambling to make this worth while for anyone because anyone with half a brain doesn't gamble on hockey.
NHL officials are making the calls they are making because they are being told to do so. They all travel with laptops and receive daily feedback on the calls they are personally making and situations that arise throughout the league relating to calls being made by other officials.
The bias that you speak of relates more to home town fans being annoyed with calls being made against their teams. If someone were to watch an official from game to game, as opposed to watching a team from game to game, you would see that the officials each have their own style and standard.
The nature of the beast is that calls are going to be missed and officials are going to make a call that only they they saw. Those calls may be wrong from time to time. Baseball umpires screw up balls and strikes, football officials miss calls all the time and call penalties that don't happen. I won't get into basketball officials. The average fan has the luxury of seeing instant replay. The officials see the plays in real time and despite how slow it looks on TV, it is happening at about 10x that speed for real in an NHL arena.
The officials are not being bribed to call penalties. Hockey is the fastest game on earth and things move at unreal speeds on the ice.
EDIT: Tocchet was involved in a gambling scheme but he wasn't taking hockey specific bets, nor was he betting on games he was involved with. Rather, he was taking bets on football, basketball, etc. I am sure they didn't turn away hockey bets, but hockey betting is not as popular as football or basketball. The NBA official set off flags because of the irregular betting patterns another mentioned in their answer. Hockey would set off flags if anyone bet on it.
2007-12-09 18:24:13 · answer #1 · answered by Lubers25 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
IMO, the league wants more scoring to attract new fans. They figure the best way to do that is by awarding more powerplays, so they had the pfficials call more penalties that would have been previously ignored. Now, they seem to have gone too far with some refs getting a bit overzealous calling anything and everything that remotely resembles an infraction.
(insert token Leaf spin here)
Hats off to the Toronto Maple Leafs for refusing to participate in the 'increase scoring through inceased powerplays' campaign.
2007-12-10 05:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by cme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not gambling or anything like that- you would be insane o wager on Hockey.
What it is is the standard of rule enforcement is new and res have not quite figured out how to correctly apply it while still keeping the game fair.
If you at bad reffing, you should have been at my men's league championship game last night. It was called awful both ways.... much worse then the NHL ever has been... much much worse.
2007-12-10 03:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one would try to fix a hockey match because there is so little wagered on hockey that any large bets on underdogs that go on to win would be conspicuous. They have software in Las Vegas that can detect odd patterns of wagering. Aside from being suspicious, any large bets would throw the line off. Hence the bad guys would want to fix sports where the handle is large.
2007-12-10 02:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe hockey is now experiencing what other sports have been experiencing for some time. The newer generation of officials is not as keen to or caring about accuracy as previous generations of officials. I see no end in sight to this.
2007-12-09 17:52:16 · answer #5 · answered by Hockey Luver 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure you're talking about hockey and not the NBA?
I'll assume you're talking about hockey. It's the rules at fault. A slight love tap to the elbow pad is enough to warrant two minutes. Apparently, it'll hinder the player from scoring....even though it really has no effect.
2007-12-09 16:23:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's far too much scrutiny by the media for anyone to be able to be bribed, or to have an agenda against a team. Calls right now are being called too closely - that is, calling penalties that either weren't really penalties, or made no difference in the play and should be ignored --- but I don't believe there is anything "going on." The league just needs to find its....um.....you know......manliness.
2007-12-09 17:01:02 · answer #7 · answered by Rich 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No joke. Its not even iffy situations anymore, I just watched Boston glove a puck and throw it down the ice and nothing. Again, apparently another rule I didn't know about. Its really frustrating.
2007-12-10 12:09:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Officiating has been horrible as long as I can remember at every level. What's changed?
2007-12-09 16:04:13 · answer #9 · answered by pricehillsaint 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I blame the Russian mob.
Why not? John McEnroe does.
2007-12-10 05:15:44 · answer #10 · answered by trombass08 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋