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Officiating in Sports
Just this past week, the refs have been put in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons in the world of sports. On Tuesday, Marian Hossa's apparent game tying goal in the waning seconds of Game 3 was waved off by Brad Watson because he ruled that he had lost sight of the puck. Anaheim went on to...
A day later...
Damian Cristodero at the Times reports that NHL official Stephen Walkom sees nothing wrong from last night: Stephen Walkom, the NHL's director of officiating, said the ruling that Lightning goaltender Mike Smith deliberately threw his stick to disrupt Milan Hejduk's shootout attempt on Thursday...
Instigating Change
Eric over at Off Wing has a great post up today about the effectiveness of the current instigator rule (which, contrary to popular belief, was in place prior to the beginning of Gary Bettman's tenure as Commish).The post is written in the context of Brendan Shanahan's outburst last night regarding...
Kerry Is So Very… Not Making The Playoff Cut
When the Stanley Cup Playoffs get underway later this week, they'll do so without the League's longest-serving referee, Kerry Fraser (and his hair). While twenty of Fraser's 33 full-time NHL referee colleagues made the cut, Kerry (who officiated only four games in the 2006 Playoffs) did not. In...
Raise Your Hand If You're A Douche Bag
Thanks, Bill.h/t Paul Kukla for the clip.
Moron, Err, More On Chris Rooney
Look, I hate whining about officiating (most of the time) - if a team puts itself in a position where a referee can decide the game, they often deserve what they get. I prefer holding players culpable for giving the stripes the opportunity to make the horrendous calls they so often make, so I'll...
Sometimes Karma's A Female Dog
For more schadenfreudian goodness, make sure to stop by The 700 Level, and if mainstream media whining is more your thing, the Philadelphia Daily News has you covered.
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