Refereeing

[Dpperk29]

well, ECAC reffing is questionable at best most of the time... and it IS a penalty if you extend an elbow/arm/shoulder/knee/etc. into the midgets head.

[canuck89]

I agree.  I played hockey and the amusing thing is that hits along the boards never really hurt.  They sound really loud and for that reason, fans think they must be really hurtful and sometimes cheap (if the other team hits us).  As long as it is a legal check there should be no penalty call, regardless of the noise or size of the players.

Now, open ice hits are a different story...lol.

[Dpperk29]

nothing hurts more than a good open ice check, the ones where you just go in the opposite direction are the worst. however, my experience as a player is, board hits don't hurt if you are within about a foot of the boards and you get crushed... from a foot on out is just plain ugly...

[cth95]

[quote Cisco]Look -

O'Bryrn
Clarckson
O'Bryn's
Schaeffer
Clarckson

MORONIC[/quote]

Talk about the pot calling the kettle... ::rolleyes::

[oceanst41]

You bring up a good point about the noise of the hit. It seems like once a game someone like Sawada or Glover lays a big clean hit, face to face, on a player who then falls backwards into the boards. The sound of the player falling into the boards almost always draws the refs attention who sees a player spilled on the ice, and the arm goes up. Any time I hear a big hit I find myself looking for the delayed call.

Also, it seems that hits from the side are being called boarding and checking from behind all the time. It's like they can't even finish a check anymore.

As for open ice hits, they seem awfully few and far between. I don't know if that is the refereeing as much as it is the lack of Hornby :-D

[Trotsky]

Sawada has delivered a few really solid open-ice hits this year.  Although, to be honest, in several cases he's wound up flat on his ass, too.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote canuck89]I agree.  I played hockey and the amusing thing is that hits along the boards never really hurt.  They sound really loud and for that reason, fans think they must be really hurtful and sometimes cheap (if the other team hits us).  As long as it is a legal check there should be no penalty call, regardless of the noise or size of the players.[/quote]

Germain (ne TECO) Arena, home of the Everblades and the Florida College Hockey Classic, mics the boards so those hits are even louder and more impressive.  Of course, the greatest hit I've seen in that tournament was a clean open-ice check by Murray that stopped a breakaway.  It also left the recipient down on the ice for a long time.

[Rich S]

a la a Scott Stevens hit...but many of his were not clean. :-D

[RichH]

The Hartford Courant has a good article today about AHL/ECAC ref Kevin Redding.  He'll be working the Olympics.

http://www.courant.com/sports/olympics/hc-redding0127.artjan27,0,2388310.story?coll=hc-headlines-sports

[schoaff]

[quote jtwcornell91]
Germain (ne TECO) Arena, home of the Everblades and the Florida College Hockey Classic, mics the boards so those hits are even louder and more impressive.  Of course, the greatest hit I've seen in that tournament was a clean open-ice check by Murray that stopped a breakaway.  It also left the recipient down on the ice for a long time.[/quote]

Was that the one against OSU where the guy he hit helicoptered around a couple times before coming to rest? Best hit I've ever seen live.