Good call.
Though I'm sure most critiques on refs are purely objective (ahem), it
seems that, in truth, outrageous calls by refs rarely determine the
outcome of games. Marginal calls are, well...marginal, and some will go
your way, and some won't. Players make mistakes, as will refs, and as
long as refs don't have a vested interest in the outcome of the game, then I
guess I don't understand the topic ever being brought up, really. If
<insert team here> gets beat because of a call in the last fewminutes of a
game, how about considering all of the prior elements within *the game*
that led to it being such a pivotal call to begin with.
 
Not that I'm talking about anyone on Hockey-L; just the incessant
whiners abound. You know who you are. :-)
 
Sorry for the rant. Refs are such a cheap, easy target; it just seems
disrespectful, to a point.
 
Robert.
 
> Sure, all refs are incompetent.  I've said it before, and I'll say it
> again:
>
> Officiating is the only profession in the world where you have to be
> perfect on your first day on the job and improve on that performance each
> succeeding day thereafter.
 
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