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Piotrowski is one of the CCHA's best refs, along with Duke Shegos and 2nd-year man Pochmara, though it's a shame they lost Matt Shegos to retirement. As a whole though, I think the CCHA doesn't have as good a crop of refs as other leagues, but maybe it's due to league policy. I don't think it's a coincidence that since I've followed college hockey, which is admittedly just now approaching a half dozen years, the CCHA typically has three or four of the top 5 and five or six of the top 10 teams in the NCAA in penalty minutes. I don't think they're that much rougher than ECAC teams, they just have refs that call a lot more ticky-tack junk. Of course when you have Rutherford, one of the leaders in junk and make-up calls, now supervising refs since he retired from active duty, it makes you wonder if he's teaching other refs to call things like he did, then whoa nellie. --- Joe Makowiec wrote: Does anybody think it's been better this year? Oh, there've been moments - in the RPI Holiday tourney we had a guy named Piotrowsky from the CCHA on a cross-training mission. When he did call penalties they tended to be even-up, and he let some stuff go that I wondered about. And Kotyra called 4 misconducts, including a pair for an after-the-roughing scrum, in the RPI-Brown game last weekend. But in the ECAC at least, it's been fairly even this year. Also, my contention is that when the officiating *is* bad, it tends to cut both ways. If the guy overlooks hooking, and makes weak elbowing calls, he calls it that way for both teams. --- end of quote ---