Officiating Recap Tampa Bay Lightning Dec 17

The tenth game I’ll detail in the officiating review recap is the Tampa Bay Lightning game from Dec 17th. A full summary of the findings up to the end of December can be found here.

The Oilers lost this game 3-2. The referees for this game were Wes McCauley and Kendrick Nicholson.

The most frequently targeted Oiler was Jordan Eberle. The most truculent Oiler was Leon Draisaitl.

The most larcenous Lightning was Brian Boyle who committed 6 uncalled infractions without penalty.

This was a surprisingly active game, in terms of infractions committed and called.

The Oilers committed 16 uncalled infractions and received 4 penalties, all of them justified.

The Lightning committed 27 uncalled infractions and were penalized 6 times, an even split of blatant physical and technical fouls.

Here are some visualizations of the data and game state.

Below is a graph of the relative rates of infractions committed versus those called. For this data set I removed weak uncalled infractions to help weed out bias and noise.

Below is a table that displays the game progression as it relates to infractions committed and penalties called.

Here is the raw data.