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“The NHL is Rigged!” At least that’s what a lot of Florida Panthers fans think after the game 4 loss in the NHL stanley cup finals. We break down game 4, and the *real* reason why the Vegas Golden Knights are just 1 win away from winning the stanley cup.
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I'm not saying any non calls would've helped Florida win, but Vegas has been getting away with alot of things other teams wouldn't, and that you can't deny
Playoff games may not be rigged, but teams winning draft lotterys that should not have even had that pick due to off the ice shenanigans…..
But it is rigged. Selecting evidence that proves your case proves nothing. We should have learned that with Covid. The year Calgary won the cup they met Vancouver in the first round. That was the most blatant officiating I've ever seen, and I started that series as a Flames fan. Or look at the series a couple years ago when Montreal went to the finals. I think it was the second game against Toronto. Second period. The refs started calling penalty after penalty against Montreal until Toronto has a nice lead. Or I think it was the first ever women's Olympic hockey tournament. The game where Canada defeated the US in spite of getting 31 penalties in a row. They played the entire series short handed. Or the 1984 LA summer Olympics. Every single event was rigged for the US. Except for boxing where every single match was rigged for Cuba. Or the NFL or the NBA. It's common knowledge the NBA is rigged.
Saying it's rigged isn't saying it's professional wrestling. It just means that the league wants one team to win and will play funny games with officiating to achieve that. Yes, one problem is that as a fan when you want one team to win really badly it's nearly impossible to be unbiased. The solution isn't to be like The Hockey Guy and just believe that there is no bias in the league. Yes it's incredibly difficult to see what's true, but choosing to take a side such as total denial that it could happen or alternatively to go to the other extreme and be a conspiracy theorist who sees invisible conspiracy theories everywhere using the flimsiest of evidence, isn't a solution. That's just refusing to look.
This issue is really "how do we know what's true" and is fundamental to life. Most of what passes for truth is total nonsense. Most science is garbage, even physics is just engineering, which isn't a science. If you can figure out what is true you have a tremendous leg up in life. Uncertainty, randomness and chaos are part of the mix. If it was easy everybody would be talking sense about most everything.
Every year, every league and every sport people claim officials have rigged the game. Well, except for fifa, that one actually happened to be rigged.
League doesn't want a Canadian team to win either way sooooooooooooooooo
Of course it's rigged. How do you think Florida came back to beat the Bruins?
JK JK … not rigged. That's simply the go-to for those can't accept that THEIR team ran into a BETTER team.
The person making this video was rigged.
Im a panthers fan, but I think our base is just very frustrated after so much. I mean it has been 27 years since our last cup appearance, and with a team that has a very storied season! We were all quite excited for this final and (some expected us to sweep) got hit with reality that Vegas is not a team that wants to mess around. We get shit from every team in the league no matter the year, and I mean years of being told "our team sucks and we have no fans, we don't deserve a hockey team, and we are not serious" we took on goaliths this year, and won. We wanted to just embrace victory after last years flop. It hurts that going into the playoffs we were shit on by the media even when we were winning games! The refs have been dogshit all playoffs for most teams I don't want to get into that part, but they need to seriously evaluate them. But I understand cats fans are upset because VGK has made it to the cup twice in 6 years while we may actually lose the cup while also being harrassed online year in and year out. Like we should be fans of hockey and not dogpile on other fans, because if I hear we are a "poverty franchise" one more time I might just lose it 😂
LoL, dude your not at all curious why the officiating regarding the Vegas Golden Knights now has made two separate fambases in a row nearly storm the ice? 😂.
Any true Cats fan knows the league isn't rigged and are not blaming the refs for now being down 3-1. Yes officiating has been pretty garbage but it goes both ways in every series. It is what it is. Vegas has just been playing much better hockey and have figured out where we are weak. Most of the people blaming the refs are just Vegas haters, not necessarily cats fan. I hope we can come alive on Tuesday and make things interesting. They don't call us comeback cats for nothing. Regardless, I'm just proud we got this far and where we'll go next season. If Vegas takes it they deserve it cause they have been playing insane hockey this series.
great analysis
Just as rigged as all the other sports. That conversation is way overblown.
It's a bit disingenuous to show examples of VGK goals when, I'd argue, the vast majority of people are crying on Twitter in regards to VGK penalties not being called. Penalties.
Yes, VGK is playing a great game. But what a lot of FLA fans are seeing (either from bias or objective truth) is that some actions from VGK are not being called. Sure, there are plenty of FLA actions not being called either, but that is not the point. The point is that people are upset the refs aren't calling "enough" penalties against VGK.
I'm sure FLA fans would equate "enough" to "the number of penalties to give, in which will allow FLA to have more chances to come back and/or win."
And that's where I thought the subject of this video was going to tackle. The penalties. Not a sarcastic recalling of each VGK goal and displaying a condensed stat sheet. Not that every video of yours needs to be a banger… it's just that I think this rebuttal could've been way, WAY better.
Thanks for all the content you put out! Even if I'm feeling a bit critical. 😉
Lots of people from Florida always say something is rigged if it don't go their way…lol
Leafs lose to the Panthers, Leaf fans the NHL is rigged.
Panthers losing to Vegas, Panther fans the NHL is rigged.
Yes, the officiating has been dogshit for very team.
Does this mean I can claim every Lightning loss this season was down to "rigging"? SWEET! 82-0! Suck it, Boston!
Upchuck is a dirty player as well as many others on the team and the Panther fans are a-holes (see end of game 4 throwing water bottles and their representative rats). I am glad the Knights lost the first game in Florida. That way they will get respect from their own fans when they win the Cup on Tuesday. If they won the Cup in Florida they would probably get booed. Florida should have never been in the playoffs. If the NHL is rigged it is for the Panthers.
When you get soft calls one way so a team plays contrary to their style of play out of fear it dictates the entire series … by calling games one and two very lopsided they took Florida out of it 🤷🏼♂️, but in the end good teams over come bad officiating … I just hate when people don’t acknowledge how much the officials dictate a series when they call bs penalties one way and not the other 👀 might not be rigged but it certainly set the tone for how the game is played
I wouldn’t say that the league is rigged…However they made the golden knights a solid franchise to grow the southwest and more advertising $..but just my “hot take”.
Panthers making it to the Final is not, but Vegas being able to reach the Final is! $97 million in players salaries, being close to $15 million over the cap ceiling. I call VGK LTIR to be partially BS! No way they should have been allowed to add so much depth at the trade deadline. Stone, coincidentally came off LTIR the day after the regular season was officially over with.
The most evident example. The Crosby Draft! It's on record Mario Lemieux was mentoring Crosby when Crosby was age 16. It goes under Tampering and no one had the pucks to call the NHL/Pens on it!
Vegas has had consistently favourable refereeing since coming into the league. I'm enjoying watching them dominate the Panthers, who had favourable refereeing up to this point in the playoffs, but being the better team isn't a guarantee of winning and certainly doesn't mean that the referees can't also help you out.
They touched the conference trophy. Vegas DIDN'T touch the conference trophy. It matters.
OK, it was a pretty good feel good story for while it lasted and I wanted to see Panthers hoist the cup before Vegas or Seattle, but, Vegas is the better team. So now the feel good story is journeyman Hill, (previously) oft maligned Eichel and warhorse Stone. I'm good with that and I wish these idiots would STOP THROWING SHIT ON THE ICE and I'm SICK OF THE RAT THING. So Vegas, go ahead and Git er Done so it's not some exhibition of shame and full water bottles thrown on the ice when the Cats loose in Fla. Did I say I was sick of the rat thing? They managed to get rid of the sea life in Detroit so it's do able.
The NHL is not rigged but it has massive flaws that need to be addressed. The LTIR loophole needs to be closed, if the Knights do win that will be the second time in 3 years where the winning team has abused said loophole. The officiating needs to be substantially better and I for one would encourage the league give teams some type of ability to review calls. Finally the D.O.P.S is ridiculously inconsistent.
Florida come back??? We can just do a Boston and win the cup next Monday
It's not rigged. After slaying the giants the Panthers are choking to an expansion team with the coach Boston fired last year.
I see the jxmy inspiration
BLOOD! If the refs see blood, the opening bid is a 5 minute major. Ridiculous. A simple 2 minute minor x-check becomes a major penalty if the fouled player sheds a drop of blood.
The only thing in the NHL i question in legitimacy is the draft lottery
If the league really was rigging it in favor of Vegas, they’d find a more impactful way than “letting Vegas get away with stuff” when the panthers’ power play is 0/13 and Florida is getting away with just as much
I call complete BULLSHIT on this garbage video. It absolutely is rigged. Just look at the betting markets. They had vegas winning before the finals ever started. Not only that, how else would you explain a team that barely made the playoffs beating both the number one and number two teams, only to be taken out by one of the biggest market teams in the league? What is Vegas? The gambling capital of the US. The Stanley cup is no longer about who's the best but where the most money can be made. Stop being so gullible.
nhl not riged vegas is just the better team
Just remember The Panthers we’re a wild card team. VGK was “Best in the West”. Both teams earned the right to SCF. Let’s Go Knights!
"flat out the better team." All sports are worked like the WWE and have been for the last 40+ years lmfao.
Just ask some fans from Bruins, Leaf, Canes, Jets, Oilers and Stars, they would all agree NHL is rigged
All professional sports are rigged, it's all about money and gambling.
Some games are rigged. Eg., Knights first season – Stanley cup game at home. That was rigged. Knights were paid to lose, or maybe 2-3 key players paid off for sure. Casinos could not afford to pay off all bets at beginning of season when knights were 100/1 long shot to win cup so they rigged it.
6 on 4 for last 20 seconds with multiple chances for Florida to tie
Panther fans are just sore loosers playing with a skill team now what.
I think the officiating sucks… but it's not rigged. The NHL is merely incompetent. Oh and Vegas has been the better team… and I hate Vegas. Doesn't change the facts though.
Florida “fans” have to be the worst ever. Throwing trash on the ice after game 4!? Florida fans are trash so it makes sense.