definitely the ref that gave me a 12 min misconduct for taunting the other teams coaches even though by that point they have been talking s*** to a bunch of minors for the whole game but when you make a cup to the ear like a “shout louder cant here you” gesture immediate penalty oh and they repeatedly grabbed kids on our team while skating by. Never seen coaches or refs high tail it to safety like i did then.
4-0 game and the ref wants to avoid having shit happen…game management. Game just started and ref wants to set his standard…the box is going to be full all fn game if the bar is this low! Haha
For all you casuals yes its a penalty because when a player does that the defenceman will go after him then everybody on the ice scrums then there is a big delay of game and multiple penalties are called and then that incident will turn retaliatory against the other goalie resulting in another big delay and multiple penalties being called again all of this can lead into the game getting completely out of hand. So yes its soft and dumb but its the only and correct call to make. Its why they started to call this in the first place!