Comments on: Player Tries to Drop Gloves with Ref http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/2009/12/20/player-ref-fight/ Tue, 08 May 2012 20:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mark http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/2009/12/20/player-ref-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-34816 mark Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:12:49 +0000 http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/?p=2835#comment-34816 I do believe in players and teams policing themselves, but I also believe the best way to do that is to put the refs on the first row in the upper bowl at the centerline opposite each other and to stay with only two linesmen. 1. The refs would have a better view of the entire ice. 2. This isn't the first time an official has been attacked. I'm not even sure if Maurice Richard was the first to hit an official (while watching "the Rocket" I believed that official "had it coming" but it was a movie that was praising the Rocket...what else would they do there? 3. The game happens too quick for a guy (or even two) at ice-level to really police all the action. 4. No-one breaks up a fight until the fight goes seriously bad or both contestants want it to end so moving to only 2 on-ice officials is not more of a liability than the current 4 (two refs and two linesmen.) 5. With only two on-ice officials we'd see much less interference with normal plays than we currently do. The players we love and pay money to see have to make many plays throughout the course of the year that they normally wouldn't do because an official is in the way. 6. Fans should quit bitching about the officials in general, they are doing the best they can but they have probably a tougher job than anyone else in sports (outside of the guy that has to clean the urinals in any given stadium each night.) Of course, I could be wrong...but I don't care...These are just my thoughts. While I do believe "he had it coming" should be a legal defense in an assualt case, the official in question here did nothing wrong and "did not have it coming." Throw the book at the player and ban him for five years to life in hockey. That wasn't skating a thin line, it was brazenly crossing over it into a total disregard for safety and total disrespect for hockey. How long had the puck been out of play before the official got hit? Time elapsed should've cooled his hot head well before the hit went out. I do believe in players and teams policing themselves, but I also believe the best way to do that is to put the refs on the first row in the upper bowl at the centerline opposite each other and to stay with only two linesmen.
1. The refs would have a better view of the entire ice.
2. This isn’t the first time an official has been attacked. I’m not even sure if Maurice Richard was the first to hit an official (while watching “the Rocket” I believed that official “had it coming” but it was a movie that was praising the Rocket…what else would they do there?
3. The game happens too quick for a guy (or even two) at ice-level to really police all the action.
4. No-one breaks up a fight until the fight goes seriously bad or both contestants want it to end so moving to only 2 on-ice officials is not more of a liability than the current 4 (two refs and two linesmen.)
5. With only two on-ice officials we’d see much less interference with normal plays than we currently do. The players we love and pay money to see have to make many plays throughout the course of the year that they normally wouldn’t do because an official is in the way.
6. Fans should quit bitching about the officials in general, they are doing the best they can but they have probably a tougher job than anyone else in sports (outside of the guy that has to clean the urinals in any given stadium each night.)

Of course, I could be wrong…but I don’t care…These are just my thoughts.

While I do believe “he had it coming” should be a legal defense in an assualt case, the official in question here did nothing wrong and “did not have it coming.” Throw the book at the player and ban him for five years to life in hockey. That wasn’t skating a thin line, it was brazenly crossing over it into a total disregard for safety and total disrespect for hockey. How long had the puck been out of play before the official got hit? Time elapsed should’ve cooled his hot head well before the hit went out.

]]> By: KofC http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/2009/12/20/player-ref-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-34814 KofC Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:57:15 +0000 http://jerseysandhockeylove.com/blog/?p=2835#comment-34814 Wow, that's awful. I hadn't heard about this incident yet, or the other similar incident involving the AAHL this season (mentioned in the HockeyRefs piece)--also the Chi-Town Shooters, and involving a 20-game suspension. The team is actually in Dyer, Indiana, not that close to Chicago, but that's all I know about them. Wow, that’s awful. I hadn’t heard about this incident yet, or the other similar incident involving the AAHL this season (mentioned in the HockeyRefs piece)–also the Chi-Town Shooters, and involving a 20-game suspension. The team is actually in Dyer, Indiana, not that close to Chicago, but that’s all I know about them.

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