6 de agosto de 2008

Archivos de la categoría: Jueces de línea de NHL

¡Referencia, usted aspira! Hombres del hockey que insulta en rayas

El calor del hockey-menos de agosto proporciona una relevación agradable para el ventilador de NHL: la libertad de oficiar a menudo notorio y grotesco de NHL arbitra.

Aunque no hay hombre raya-revestido actualmente jobbing los capitales, podemos todavía utilizar este vez de afilar con piedra nuestras habilidades taunting. El gritar en los refs es una tradición de muchos años. . . y seguro, hay diagonal de un homer si una llamada dada realmente botched, pero la terapia principal del grito de funcionarios berating puede lanzar el vapor encerrado acumulado como juegos de la mano de los árbitros aparentemente a los opositores de su equipo.

Muchos insultos listos y de vez en cuando cringe-dignos se han lanzado en los funcionarios del hockey, aunque pues el dos-año-viejo hijo de mi amigo demostrado en un juego de los capitales una parte posteriora de años de los pares a veces simple es el mejor:

Hemos proporcionado algunos taunts preferidos/clásicos abajo. Gastos indirectos I mi [micrófono] favorito personal hace aproximadamente 6 años en la sección 426, gritada en la manera impresionante ruidosa por una mujer que era por lo menos 70 años si ella era un día: “Hey referencia - usted debe ser embarazado,' le causa ha faltado tres períodos!”

Cómo lo haga usted ¿deje los refs saber su funcionamiento de trabajo es secundario-igualdad? ¿O cuál es uno de sus favoritos absolutos que usted tiene oyó por casualidad? No omita la blasfemia (sensación libre utilizar los símbolos de %*#$ing si se da el caso) y por favor ningún racist/homophobic/el etc. insultos. . . pero iguale dentro de esas pautas que usted todavía tiene un montón de sitio de compartir taunts encantadoramente cobardes con sus lectores del compañero.

Seleccionaremos a dos favoritos entre las sumisiones y concederemos a cada ganador con un goody de OFB. Ayúdenos a completar la lista a una docena sucia. ¡Las sumisiones aceptaron hasta taunt del este del ” del € del â de 5:00 P.M. el lunes 11 de agosto tan temprano, taunt a menudo!

  • ¡Si usted tuviera otro ojo usted sería los cyclops!
  • Excepto un ciervo: Tire a una cebra
  • ¡Hey ” del € del â de la referencia usted debe ser embarazado,' le causa ha faltado tres períodos!
  • ¡Tenga otro buñuelo! (cortesía de Jim Schoenfeld)
  • ¡Bullllllllll-sh*t! (Versión de centro gigante de Hershey)
  • Dóblese encima y utilice su bueno ¡ojo!
  • ¡Hey referencia, pensé que solamente durmieron los caballos estando parado para arriba!
  • ¡Le espero dado en un fuego! (oyó por casualidad en Philly, por supuesto)
  • ¡Estoy oculto, yo soy sordo, yo deseo ser una referencia!
  • Hey referencia, me estoy yendo con su esposa - incluso ella es disgustado con usted.
  • el ____ agrega el suyo como comentario

Y si usted no desea confiar en la señora Luck (o nuestra sentencia voluble) para el botín de OFB, sensación libre comprobar hacia fuera nuestro almacén.

Sunday Bloody Sunday at the Worlds

A World Championship that in its first week was marked by superb officiating (you didn’t hear anything about the guys in stripes, right? That means something.) took an abrupt turn for the markedly worse Sunday, as incompetent on-ice work by the four men in stripes working Sunday’s U.S.-Finland tilt had a partner in crime off it.

Finland bested the U.S. 3-2, but few who watched or followed it will think much about the score when so much madness over the course of 60 minutes ensued thanks to the officiating crew. They’re pictured below. They shamed their mothers on Sunday. This is what U.S. head coach John Tortorella had to say after the game:

“I’ve heard about these horror shows as far as international refereeing. I have finally lived through one. It’s just ridiculous as far as how they’re calling the game when you have two pretty competitive teams willing to go toe-to-toe. Let the teams and players decide.”

It was a rare instance in international hockey in which a game’s officials constantly interjected themselves into what should have been a classic hockey game contested between two great hockey nations, robbing the game of flow and especially of its five-on-five strategies. The zebras whistled 23 infractions, and things got ‘74 Broad Street Bully-ish at the final horn. We recommend that you take a glance of the game’s official scoresheet here.

It was a disgraceful performance by the on-ice officiating crew. But it was matched by incompetency off it. Finland’s first goal of the game wasn’t a goal — it went through the side of Robert Esche’s net. The play was reviewed and, mystifyingly, upheld as a goal.

By the third period exasperated players and coaches on both sides, on the ice and on the two benches, could be seen laughing in surrender at the officials for their ludicrous efforts.

The IIHF was forced into a supremely embarrassing position afterward: acknowledging the non-goal mistake and firing the off-ice official! Give the Federation credit for swiftly taking action and attempting to restore credibility to its championships.

The NHL certainly could learn a lesson from this action.

Appreciation for the Striped Ones

Check out the candid discussion with NHL referee Kelly Sutherland in ESPN The Magazine (or, via the link, on ESPN The Website). It’s a brief but enjoyable reminder that, as much as fans may revile the men in stripes, they too are fans of the game and work hard to get the calls right. I particularly enjoyed Sutherland’s anecdote of being mistaken for Kerry Fraser in his first and being heckled with a hearty “Fraser, you suck!” even before the puck dropped.

In light of linesman Pat Depuzzo’s injury ten days ago, take a moment and appreciate the on-ice officials, without whom there could be no game.

Profile in Linesman Courage

One noteworthy aspect of today’s Flyers-Rangers’ matinee in Philly was the shutout pitched by Blueshirt backup netminder Steve Valiquette. The Caps will most assuredly see Henrik Lundqvist tomorrow afternoon at Verizon Center.

But in today’s second period in Philly linesman Pat Dapuzzo suffered a brutal skate-to-face injury that opened him up in slasher-film fashion. Congruent to the incident was a spontaneous outburst of fisticuffs between the clubs — no fewer than three slow dances (Steve Downie using Fedor Tyutin like a punching bag most notable among them). Somehow, Dapuzzo got to his feet and skated through two zones, a robust trail of his blood following (and leading) him, in a remarkable attempt to assist his officiating colleagues in stemming the melee. Arrived at the brawling, he was almost instantly ushered to medical assistance from both teams’ trainers.

Hockey players are often — and rightly — lauded for their courage in competing through pain and savage injury. Dapuzzo today reminded us that the entire ice sheet is staffed with profiles in courage.