Roman Polak is annoyed.



He is annoyed because every game of late the Maple Leafs defenceman seems to get whistled for some sort of penalty. One night it’s slashing. The next it’s boarding. Then it’s cross-checking. Polak has been called for 16 (!) minor penalties in only 25 games this season.



He’s gotten flagged at least once in seven of the last eight games, including one for hammering Blue Jackets forward Lukas Sedlak into the boards on Monday night.



“It is annoying,” Polak said of his penalties following practice on Tuesday afternoon. “Because it depends on the referee, too. Sometimes they call it, sometimes they don’t. And I don’t get — (Monday) I don’t know how close we were to the boards, but sometimes I hit the guy seven feet from the boards and he jumps there. Is it boarding? It’s almost like open ice. You just flew in there.”



Polak did not like the penalty call for...