What refs need mostly is nice black pants and the abilility to look like they know what they are doing ie; make  bad calls but do it concisely with authority and make sure the bad calls are consistent. But nice pants are a must.

I can tell you have a calming influence on the ice. One just has to look at your avator and serenity washes over me

Yeah Keith and stop getting offside all the time!

I seem to remember you dislocating your pride at the same time

Perhaps its more to do with the age of the caged than wear with no fear. In my experience many young people tend to be a bit lippy regardless of what they wear. Happily this mostly gets beaten out of them the older they get 

Yeah to hard to call at this stage. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds

Hey Aston you must be due to come to Dunedin to study stats soon huh?

Yeah they caught them. two 14 year olds