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Yeah, what it appears to have done is reversed the even-up tendency of the referees to instead create a snowball effect where, if one team gets enough of an advantage, it spirals out of control and the ref just keeps piling penalties on to their opponent. Oddly, the net effect on league totals is more or less neutral, it just makes for some very weird individual games, particularly in leagues where a lot of penalties are called. In a relatively low-PIM league like the modern NHL or fictional leagues with default penalty levels, the problem hides itself better, since teams don't get several PP's ahead of their opponents as often.
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