The Islanders, other NHL teams, and anyone who watches this sport can see why this is a stupid way to officiate your game.
It’s one of the great problems of the modern NHL, and the league’s flippant attitude towards this situation, trying to turn it into a problem of there being a live microphone present, should assure you of that. The make-good call is a problem that will persist. No one wants to hear the bogus “integrity of the game” stuff, we want the games officiated right, as they should be because there is no integrity in the way they currently are. They fired a tenured referee because he accidentally let slip that their convoluted philosophy on officiating exists when we all already knew it existed. The NHL took the wrong approach on this one.
#TIM PEEL MAKE UP CALL PRO#
It’s a ludicrous way to officiate a pro sport. In fact, the team that plays within the rules is punished because of NHL officials’ desire to even out the two teams’ power-play minutes. As I said in that three takeaways piece from last week, make-good calls don’t make the game fairer because teams who fail to play within the rules aren’t punished for doing so. The Islanders at Capitals game is just one example of a problem with officiating in hockey. This isn’t defending the retaliation either, it’s simply pointing out the hypocrisy of not calling both penalties evenly. Then, Barzal takes a penalty for retaliation moments later. This happens to NHL stars league-wide.Įvgeny Kuznetsov broke his stick in half when he cross-checked Barzal in that Islanders game with the Caps. Why? Because it evens the playing field, supposedly. Islanders center Mathew Barzal is hooked, chopped, held, slashed, tripped, and cross-checked without a penalty called every game. It’s a problem with the sport, not with the NHL. This philosophy of not influencing the game by completely and utterly influencing the game has permeated every level of ice hockey officiating. That isn’t just something that happens at the NHL level either. We’re aware of the fact that referees intentionally move goalposts on what is and isn’t a penalty, and when it is or isn’t, in order to induce parity in individual games.
Everyone who watches hockey at any level knows make-good calls exist. It just scapegoats one man for a problem that is systemic. What bothers me about this, (more than Campbell’s Orwellian title, that is) is that firing a lone referee does nothing to ensure integrity. “Tim Peel’s conduct is in direct contradiction to the adherence to that cornerstone principle…”
“Nothing is more important than ensuring the integrity of our game,” said Campbell via a league statement. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly released a statement last night that the NHL would be “taking a look at” at the “hot-mic moment.” Wednesday morning, Senior Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell released a follow-up announcing Peel’s essential firing. The NHL clearly isn’t interested in altering the way their games are officiated either. tKsg2SwGh8- NHL Public Relations March 24, 2021 Referee Tim Peel no longer will be working NHL games now or in the future. But that doesn’t solve the problem really, now does it? Firing Peel does not alter the broken philosophy that permeates hockey officiating. The ruling is really just sending Peel into early retirement since he was set to hang up his skates in the coming months anyway. The NHL has since announced that Peel will no longer be officiating their games. The Problem with NHL Officiating – How it Affects the Islanders & Everyone Else “It wasn’t much, but I wanted to get a penalty against Nashville early in the…” and then the mic cuts off, presumably because Peel or someone else noticed it was recording the conversation.
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