2020-2021 NHL Thread

[L K]

Tim Peel was going to retire after last season and the NHL asked him to come back for this season.

I'm surprised they pulled this but again, it's a guy getting canned for getting caught on a mic doing something the league has been perfectly content with being the standard of play.

 

[herman]

I guess they couldn't suspend/fire the broadcaster's sound tech who forgot to dial back the fader lol

This ruling being meted out and signed off on by Colin Campbell is amazing.

 

[Deebo]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

 

[Kin]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

I'd be surprised if there were ever formal instructions to that effect. It feels more like one of those "everyone knows the way to the mess hall" sorts of things.

 

[herman]

I bet officiating is going to get really interesting over the next couple of weeks.

Should be nice for Connor McDavid and the Leafs

Eyeballs the two Boston serieses and poor Nazem Kadri

 

[herman]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

A month from retirement, you get drawn and quartered in the public square for doing what your entire industry is known for. It doesn't appear to be worded as an outright firing (suspension of duties), so I'm guessing whatever pension there is is unaffected. Still, his legacy is publicly tarnished.

 

[bustaheims]

Apparently he was going to retire after this season anyway, so they made him fall on the sword.  Doubt this changes anything the way games are officiated.

Probably not. Maybe for the next few days. Really, what it's going to do is make refs more conscious of whether or not their mic is on.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

A month from retirement, you get drawn and quartered in the public square for doing what your entire industry is known for.

And he was planning to retire last year, but agreed to ref this season after the league asked him to.

 

[herman]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

A month from retirement, you get drawn and quartered in the public square for doing what your entire industry is known for.

And he was planning to retire last year, but agreed to ref this season after the league asked him to.

With the hazards of travelling during a pandemic (on top of the usual NHL hazards)... why couldn't this have been Graham Skilliter instead?

 

[bustaheims]

I'd be surprised if there were ever formal instructions to that effect. It feels more like one of those "everyone knows the way to the mess hall" sorts of things.

It definitely feels more like an accepted standard rather than a formalized one.

 

[Deebo]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

I'd be surprised if there were ever formal instructions to that effect. It feels more like one of those "everyone knows the way to the mess hall" sorts of things.

I think it gets heavily implied but not outright or put in writing.

 

[Kin]

I'd be surprised if there were ever formal instructions to that effect. It feels more like one of those "everyone knows the way to the mess hall" sorts of things.

It definitely feels more like an accepted standard rather than a formalized one.

I just figure that in order to get a NHL officiating job in the first place you're probably going to understand how a league, wink wink, wants a game to be called.

I've said it before and I'll say it again but I actually do have some sympathy for the NHL here. I've been a hockey fan going on 30 years now and I could not tell you for the life of me how NHL fans want games to be called.

 

[Kin]

Hopefully Peel is mad enough about being made the scapegoat that he will spill the beans about being instructed to call games this way.

I'd be surprised if there were ever formal instructions to that effect. It feels more like one of those "everyone knows the way to the mess hall" sorts of things.

I think it gets heavily implied but not outright or put in writing.

Well, like I'm saying to busta I don't think even implying it is necessary. If you'll forgive the analogy I think it's like saying a NHL team tells their, or implies, players how to lace their skates when realistically, they'll have learned that long before they got to the NHL.

 

[Frank E]

This is shocking to me, and I've refereed hockey in my 20's.

I've never ever made a make-up call.  Never happened.  Nope.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

I bet officiating is going to get really interesting over the next couple of weeks.

Should be nice for Connor McDavid and the Leafs

Eyeballs the two Boston serieses and poor Nazem Kadri

Wait, did you just say.... "serieses"...?

 

[herman]

I bet officiating is going to get really interesting over the next couple of weeks.

Should be nice for Connor McDavid and the Leafs

Eyeballs the two Boston serieses and poor Nazem Kadri

Wait, did you just say.... "serieses"...?

I absolutely did on purpose

 

[bustaheims]

I've said it before and I'll say it again but I actually do have some sympathy for the NHL here. I've been a hockey fan going on 30 years now and I could not tell you for the life of me how NHL fans want games to be called.

Yup. The only thing that strikes me as being true across the wide spectrums of NHL fans is that they'd like to see a consistent standard. What that standard is, however, does not have anything near a universal consensus.

 

[herman]

I've said it before and I'll say it again but I actually do have some sympathy for the NHL here. I've been a hockey fan going on 30 years now and I could not tell you for the life of me how NHL fans want games to be called.

Yup. The only thing that strikes me as being true across the wide spectrums of NHL fans is that they'd like to see a consistent standard. What that standard is, however, does not have anything near a universal consensus.

Because fans want to see the came called in whatever way is advantageous to their team or reaffirms their individual version of the right way to play, which is a moving target in and of itself.

 

[Kin]

Yup. The only thing that strikes me as being true across the wide spectrums of NHL fans is that they'd like to see a consistent standard. What that standard is, however, does not have anything near a universal consensus.

Yeah, I suppose that's true but it feels like even within that it amounts to a lot of fans wanting referees to make split second decisions that accounts for the severity of the infraction, the game situation and potentially altering the standard to account for any missed calls earlier in the game.

 

[bustaheims]

Yeah, I suppose that's true but it feels like even within that it amounts to a lot of fans wanting referees to make split second decisions that accounts for the severity of the infraction, the game situation and potentially altering the standard to account for any missed calls earlier in the game.

Oh yeah, that standard is definitely a moving target. There's just a desire for there to be the appearance of one.