his play is questionably dirty not just in the playoffs, and he is rarely called. at least that is what i hear. personally i just think of him as a whiner, but i have heard criticism of him from more than one quarter, as a dirty player. not to the level of NEAL, mind you.
It all depends on whose ox is being gored, doesn’t it?
Nothing much has changed since Lemieux complained about the “garage league” antics of the NHL refs.
Bottom line is that all players get away with whatever they can get away with. In a world of perfect justice, where games were called according to the rule book, players like Crosby would run rings around others.
That doesn’t happen. Uncalled penalties against one, lead one to conclude a version of the golden rule. Do unto others as they have done unto you.