NHL Referees continue to raise suspicion on if they have a brain or not

The National Hockey League has had a number of contentious decisions over the previous week, including more than three in the Toronto Maple Leafs game and a couple during the Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars game.

However, despite the Colorado Avalanche's incredible dominance and 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars Friday night, something else stood out throughout the game and its drawing concerns.  A Colorado Avalanche player took a stick right to the face and dropped to the ice, where then the play was blown dead. It was obviously a penalty, and penalties are called 99% of the time in these situations.  This situation came into the 1% of the time category, but not because the referee missed it; rather, it fell into this category because a made-up rule, which was spoken for the first time ever and is raising questions about the refereeing, prevented a penalty from being assessed.

The official said the following:

'''The play was killed due to an injury. There is no injury, no penalty.''



Since that had never been done, Colorado fans and the coach were in complete shock when they heard it for the first time. All they could do was grin.

No matter whether a player is hurt or not, a player's stick should not be at the level of the player's head, hence a penalty is always called.

What were these officials thinking?