"I will often NOT give a time penalty to an infringed player who looks like he/she is simply trying to protect themselves by holding the 'attacking' player away though. It's really common for a lot of refs to just throw both players involved out - even if the 2nd one isn't SEEN doing anything - and I really hate that! The thought seems to be " well they must have done something, so I'll kick them out anyway" - and that's just wrong if you haven't actually seen a foul!"


...so true. it's the same when a ref awards an equal puck because he cant see whats going on. ...something must have happened... i didnt see anything... ok, put my hand up, i am a useless referee, equal puck guys.

same goes for biffing both guys when one obviously was the guy in the wrong... and a lot of the time the other guy is often just pushing away from a guy blatantly fouling him, or trying to work himself free... often while looking around for the ref, like "can you see what this clown just did to me...?" and then finds he's in the sinbin too. not good enough.

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