Scrap the entire Ref’s Union. Clear house and hand pick refs from the CHL, NCAA, and AHL. Re-hire those that display a solid ethic for making calls when they see them. There are too many refs arbitrating games and the problem needs to be addressed across the board.
- fry
this would at least be as fresh a start as you could get.
as many have said previously in here.. the issue is rarely the calls they do make - its almost always the calls "they miss"... and do I HATE the use of that expression. If the league was honest (like that will ever happen) they don't MISS many calls. Simply put they ignore them - i.e. they chose/decide to not call them.
a crosscheck in the first period is a crosscheck in overtime. full stop.
if they actually call the penalties they see they don't put themselves in the situation of having the make "make up calls" or "even the penalty count out".
if they can make that change at the league office - "just call the penalties" - the rest will take of itself.