The bolded ignores a lot of things that were pretty blatant. I can count at least three occasions that were so obvious and so ignored. Not even the hooking calls let go that we would get called for. OEL retaliation on Mangiapane, who gets called? Normally OEL would get the call. Dube hacked/slashed/high sticked to the point of blood. He gets a high sticking call. Gaudreau high sticked. Nothing except a 10 minute early bedtime for Johnny for speaking. Gaudreau (early on) having two guys hooking and holding him. Nadda.
Maybe the point is not that they weren't doing enough, but they were not falling down or selling it. 34 minutes to 2. Sutter did his usual response to the bad calls and lack of them. Won't speak to it after the game, which is correct. GM can do it if he likes, but it rarely works.
Take out the special teams and this is likely a tie game going into the third. But anyway, it's the type of game we have to be more successful at. We have always suffered from excess calls in the playoffs. We did a poor job of PK last night. Not close to what we normally see. We don't have anyone to account for the one timer from the right circle. One goal from there and one off the crossbar. The D were too collapsed IMHO. Hanifin or Guddy or whoever backed off instead of taking the most dangerous player.