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The Jets And The Refs

11/19/2013 at 6:29am EST

from Tim Campbell of the Winnipeg Free Press,

The three most popular theories for this kind of night where it concerns the Jets are the following:

The officials simply had a bad night. It happens.

The officials feel it's easy to kick the Jets around since they are basically still the new kids of the NHL block. Nobody will mind all that much.

The officials have an intense dislike of Jets winger Evander Kane, who is rarely without an opinion or comment during the games, so Kane and his team just don't get the benefit of any doubt. One NHL official has privately expressed that sentiment to a Winnipeg reporter not that long ago but whether it's real or widespread can't really be verified.

All of that aside, Monday's incidents were more than interesting.

Calgary's Lance Bouma skated directly at Jets defenceman Dustin Byfuglien on a two-on-two and bowled him out of the way, an interference that provided Bouma's opening to score a short-handed goal.

The play became a virtual wash when Byfuglien scored a power-play goal a few seconds later.

In overtime, with the Jets a man short, Byfuglien was bopped and upended by Calgary goalie Reto Berra as he rounded the net. It was ignored.

And then at the end of overtime, Jets centre Bryan Little said all he did was shake his head at the officials. That earned him a misconduct and an important disqualification from the shootout.

more and you can watch the higlights of the game below via Sportsnet and the Bouma "interference" starts at the 1:00 mark...

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