The NHL rules are broken and it’s ruining hockey

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesThese playoffs have been absolutely abysmal in terms of how the refs have been calling them.

Let’s take a quick recount of some examples:

I’m sure there are others that I missed, both because the start of the playoffs are crazy busy and because there’s that much that happened.

But here’s the thing, I don’t blame the refs at all. They call the games the way they have been told to call them. If they’re making mistakes, I firmly believe that most of the mistakes come from an extreme lack of consistency between the official rule book and how the rules are written and how the league wants the rules to be enforced (if at all).

I think there is obvious proof of this,…