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Steve said, in part ...
>I wonder if there just aren't enough good refs to go around? The two-ref
>system, while beautiful on paper, hasn't quite worked out the way I
>would've hoped, IMO. Maybe with time, the "newer" refs, especially those
>who are converted linesmen will become better and we get rid of some the
>poorer refs. Hockey East fans, can you say "Scott Leavitt" and "Ned
>Bunyon"??
I'm nobody's expert, but I would have said Hockey East ref'ing is
significantly better now than before the two-man system. Hockey East
referees seem to be a veteran group. Some of them would have very
serious problems (keeping up with play) in a Division I one-ref
system, IMHO ... but are quite good otherwise.
(I may not agree with their style wrt swallowing their whistles near
the end of a close game or letting marginal calls go, but that
appears to be a "college hockey" style and not a problem of any
individual current ref).
>[Aside from the refs, does anyone else thinks that calls from the
>blue-line have seriously deteriorated since we've only had ONE linesman??]
90% of the games I see are at Maine's Alfond Arena and all have the
same linesman (Mike Tuell). Those games are all called perfectly, as
far as I can tell (I watch 2 periods from just inside a blue-line).
Obviously most other rinks get to see more of a variety, and maybe
more variance in quality, ... but the linesman at Orono is
excellent! (Line calls were atrocious the year of the switch to the
two-man system, though).
cheers,
Wayne Smith
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