Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! This week’s column will bring to light an illegal tactic used by some teams to gain a competitive advantage on a “on the fly” player’s substitution. For safety reasons, players are allowed to step on the ice […]
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Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! This week’s column will feature Rule 83; off-side. Nowadays, every NHL arenas have multiples HD cameras everywhere in their building in order to be able to entertain all hockey fans with some spectacular images of the game. Although that […]
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NHLOA Members welcome Jacob, Audrey & Mike On Monday November 10th, members of the NHLOA (Referees Greg Kimmerly and Tom Kowal with Linesmen Jean Morin and Matt MacPherson) were very pleased to meet Jacob, Audrey and their father Mike prior to a Boston Bruins hockey game. Jacob, who uses a wheelchair and hand braces to […]
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Nov
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! In this week’s column, we will go over a situation that happened last week in Pittsburgh (October 28th vs NJ Devils @ 2:12 of the Second Period). You can watch the video here: http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=33135 On this play, the […]
Honourable guests join NHLOA members for a game in Ottawa In light of recent events in the Canadian capital, the NHLOA had the privilege to be joined by 8 Honour Guards for the game between Chicago Blackhawks and Otttawa Senators on Thursday 30th October. These brave men and women continue to serve at the Tomb […]
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NHLOA members welcome Ashlynn Hull On Tuesday, October 28, Ashlynn Hull, and her parents, Amy and Daryl were welcomed to the TD Garden in Boston on behalf of the Zebras Care Foundation. NHL Officials Wes McCauley, Tony Sericolo, Michel Cormier and Dave Lewis had the pleasure of meeting Ashlynn and her family on this special […]
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Oct
Rule / Situation of the week Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! In this week’s column, we will go over some uncommon “high-sticks” situations that are allowed in the game of hockey! There’s two different types of “high-sticks” situations in our game, first there’s the action of contacting an opponent with a stick […]
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Rule / Situation of the week Welcome back! The NHL season is off to a good start and we have already seen plenty of bizarre plays happening in the games played so far! In two separate games last week, while one team had a delayed penalty signaled against them, one of their players who was […]
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Shandor worked his first game in Buffalo, NY Last night, Shandor Alphonso of Orangeville, Ontario has worked his first regular NHL season game when the Florida Panthers visited the Buffalo Sabres at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY. He was joined on the ice by fellow referee Dan O’Halloran, Ghislain Hebert and linesman Brad […]
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Mike Leggo will reach this Milestone tonight at the Staples Center in LA Like the 23 referees before him who’ve made it to the 1,000-games milestone, Mike Leggo’s road to the NHL has been a long one. The days of working early mornings in small-town arenas, progressing through junior leagues in BC, the […]