as plod said, the actual man advantage was negligible compared to the actual minutes recorded.  We just didn’t get 10 min penalties.  Stampede had the only 5 on 3 of the game and they got it late.  They also scored on it.  For all the guys in the box in the end, the game finished with 5 on 5.  What deserved to be called was called for the most part. 

Sometimes a team is penalized more than the other.  It’s not always because the ref is in our pockets, its sometimes because they deserved more penalties.  Maybe we got away with a few and maybe Stampede did too.  I can’t say without being biased.  The only one that I saw that was really complained about was Glassy not getting a penalty shot.  Got a penalty but not a shot.  Could have gone either way but I was focussing on the puck so I didn’t get as good a look as I would have liked.

I think we were better on the day though.  On saturday, Stampede was better.  Both teams got the points they deserved.

That being said, I question the wisdom of accusing the ref of being a 7th man while the game is still on.  If I was a ref, I can’t imagine being very sympathetic to a team who accused me of cheating.  Not the best strategy and frankly deserving of another penalty (which he didn’t get).  Regardless, we have the refs we have, won’t change this year.  Move on.  The senior guys on stampede have I’m sure.

Ref was told that he was the devils best player.  That’s implying cheating on behalf of ref favoring a team.