Arizona Coyotes second-year goaltender Louis Domingue called out the referees after his team lost to Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals, 3-2, on Monday.
According to Sarah McLellan of AZCentralSports.com (h/t Justin Cuthbert of The Score), Domingue took issue with one particular call in the third period. After it appeared as though Domingue had covered up the puck after stopping a shot, Mike Richards slapped it in for the game-deciding goal, and Domingue thought the veteran Holtby would have received the call in a similar situation, per McLellan:
I'm expecting that they treat every guy the same way, and I felt like because I don't have many games in this league I'm being treated differently. I think that if Holtby would have covered the puck this way, they would have blew the whistle right away.
All game it was the same thing. I didn't have the whistle.
It's just unacceptable that they don't treat us the same way.
Holtby, who is 139-57-21 in his career, owns the most wins in the NHL this season with 38, and the Capitals lead the league with 92 po ...
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Louis Domingue Comments on Referees After Coyotes vs. Capitals
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