ECACHL Officiating

[andyw2100]

I suspect others here will have a number of other specific memories of refs getting things wrong?

Beeeej

A couple of years back at Lynah we were whistled for icing, while playing short-handed.
                      Andy W.

[RatushnyFan]

Dan Ratushny got about 20 penalties in his career that were clean hits where the apparent infraction was that he hit someone too hard.  Over the boos of the Lynah Faithful, you could usually hear the piercing scream "FOR WHAT?" from our good friend Dan.

[canuck89]

Those would be my three choices as well.  Hansen and Feola were the worst this year in my mind; hansen probably if I had to pick between the two.  Dell was absolutely horrible last year though.  Let's see who moves into first place next year between the three. :-P

[redhair34]

[quote andyw2100]

A couple of years back at Lynah we were whistled for icing, while playing short-handed.
                      Andy W.

IIRC, the same thing happened earlier this year when someone pulled their sieve at the end of the game and we were in the box.  Does this ring a bell?

[DeltaOne81]

[quote redhair34][quote andyw2100]
A couple of years back at Lynah we were whistled for icing, while playing short-handed.
                      Andy W.[/quote]

IIRC, the same thing happened earlier this year when someone pulled their sieve at the end of the game and we were in the box.  Does this ring a bell?[/quote]

Yes, I was thinking that too. But I can't place it. Something makes me think it was an OOC game, maybe Niagra?

[jtwcornell91]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote redhair34][quote andyw2100]
A couple of years back at Lynah we were whistled for icing, while playing short-handed.
                      Andy W.[/quote]

IIRC, the same thing happened earlier this year when someone pulled their sieve at the end of the game and we were in the box.  Does this ring a bell?[/quote]

Yes, I was thinking that too. But I can't place it. Something makes me think it was an OOC game, maybe Niagra?[/quote]

I remember being there, so it would have been either Niagara or MSU game one.  IIRC, there were only a few seconds left, so the game would have ended had there been no whistle, and a faceoff at center ice would have given the opponent a chance at a goal they would otherwise not have had.  So the faceoff ended up in their zone.

[Give My Regards]

[quote Beeeej][quote Trotsky]As a prominent Cornell hockey figure has said, "at least John Murphy knows the rules.  That's more than you can say for some of them."[/quote]

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I suspect others here will have a number of other specific memories of refs getting things wrong?
[/quote]

As a matter of fact, yes -- John Murphy!  He, along with Peter Dawes (this was in '94, I think, during the NCAA's experiment with two refs and one linesman), botched the game at Colgate to an unbelievable degree.  To wit:  three faceoffs held in the wrong spot; two occasions in which the puck left the ice, struck something (the pressbox and the glass behind the bench), bounced back onto the ice and play continued; and a pair of fighting majors/DQ's, instead of roughing minors, handed out to two players for falling to the ice and holding on to each other with both hands, i.e. there was no way either of them could have thrown a punch.  I also heard later that one of the two refs whistled a penalty on a player and then proceeded to forget which player he had made the call on, so the team's coach had to designate someone to serve the penalty.

I saw John Murphy do the Colgate game at Lynah, and I do have to admit he's a lot better now than he was a dozen years ago... so maybe there's hope for some of the rest of them.

And to be fair, that performance in '94 was still nowhere near as bad as the guy in the late '80s who not only didn't know the rules but couldn't even count.  This was before the rules on coincidental minors.  At one point in the game, this fellow put two guys from each team in the box, with double-minors each -- then proceeded to have the teams skate 4-on-4, not 3-on-3.  It took over a minute, and several shouts from the scorer's table, for him to realize something was wrong.