In what was likely the most entertaining game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the entire hockey world was shown, yet again, how incompetent their officiating body is in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 5-4 defeat of the Dallas Stars. Neither team escaped the atrocious officiating that plagued Game 4. Now the narrative, instead of focusing on the back and forth battle between two good teams, circles around missed, blown, suspect, and downright laughable calls.
All for the sake of ‘managing the game’.
It’s sad, especially because Tampa Bay came back on two occasions in Game 4 and Dallas came back after trailing in the third period.