NHL Officials

by chb4s on Dec 7, 2009 4:02 PM CST

Some questions I offer to the more intelligent fans than myself...

1. I understand it is the policy of NHL officiating to favor original franchises, but where is this rule written? Is it a memo from the Great Gary Bettman?

2. I believe it is also an unwritten policy for officials to actively work against certain franchises. Therefore, who did the Blues piss off?

3. Is it part of the officials training to make call they expect to happen even though they don't (anyone remember a 4 minute high sticking call earlier this year)?

4. How do you miss calls where the evidence is there staring you in the face for several minutes (a stick actually wedged in a visor or blood from a high sticking that results in a 2 minute minor)?

5. How do you consistently miss things right in front of you...like where the puck is? I understand missing a call on the other side of the rink but if it's the person with the puck 5 feet in front of you...shouldn't you see that?

6. Since I'm on the subject, why do refs at center ice call penalties in the corner when there is an alleged capable referee five feet from the play?

7. How do you allow retaliation and call the penalty? If they retaliate, shouldn't they get a penalty too (Dallas)?

8. How many times have you seen a play where a team takes a blatant cheap shot that should require a minimum of 2 minutes shorthanded and that team ends up with a power play (I can think of at least four major ones and DALLAS was a big one)?

9. When goalies skate forward out of the crease and run into the back of a player facing center ice outside the crease, how is that goalie interference?

10. Why can't refs skate...if they can't make calls so get their fat asses out of the way.

11. How is there no penalty on a play or a penalty on another player but the league later believes the play is bad enough to warrant a multi-game suspension? Shouldn't refs be able to recognize a play THAT dirty?

12. Finally, why do they suck so bad? Why are they the worst officials in all major sports? Thank God for someone in Toronto watching 20 minutes of video to get some calls right...that is when tubby hasn't blown the play dead because he can't see when he's out of position.

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nhl blows

end of story.. fire bettman, campbell, and like half the officials.. its gettin ridiculous.. its becoming a garabe league.. theyre just makin the rules up as they go.. im still confused as to how walt got the goalie interference call in LA when he never made contact with Quick but im sure they have their own bullshit reasoning

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by bleedblue2009 on Dec 7, 2009 5:46 PM CST reply actions

ref information is almost impossible to find even on the nhl refs own web site

you can find rating sites, but they are unofficail and you have to trick google to even REALLY give you a site that will rate em.

I havent looked in awhile but i did when there was a suggestion that the blues, as a last place team a few years back, plays another crappy team, the nhl sends crappy refs. I believe it is probably true but you will not get the information you ant to test the theory :) ya you go find a ref sched and try to find out of that supposition is accurate :)

the mlb umps have machines watching them at home plate

the nfl actually get their game gone over by and officiating team and errors are sent to the officals and the team the fucked.

and the nhl refs pee themselves when the words “oversite” and “accountablity” and placed in the same paragraph with their name

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by Childhood Trauma on Dec 7, 2009 6:07 PM CST reply actions

gentlemen there refs.we all have to deal with them, nobody likes them but shitty refs are just part of the not just hockey but whole sporting world.we have to just live with them

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by Oshie#74 on Dec 7, 2009 7:03 PM CST reply actions

I can't really disagree.

Except to say that the worst officiating I’ve ever seen was in the minor leagues. So at least we’re better than that.
Also, at least we don’t have refs deliberately throwing games for money (that we know of). Like the NBA does. Be we shouldn’t really acknowledge that leagues presence because it doesn’t have one in St. Louis.

Sometimes, I wonder why hockey came south of St. Louis, and then I realize, I'm south of St. Louis. Coincidence, I think not.

by Will in STL on Dec 7, 2009 7:04 PM CST reply actions

Who did the Blues piss off?

The entire NHL. Still pissed over the whole Scott Stevens thing. Seriously, until the Blues prove they’re one of the best teams in the league, they’ll always get the short end of the whistle. Tonight was brutal. The Avs tripped Blues players in the defensive zone with no intervention, and Jackman gets called for a weak hook.

by The Goalie Guy on Dec 7, 2009 10:23 PM CST reply actions