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Before I cared about the rules, I used to just drop the puck on the ice before the other team had arrived at the face-off dot. That makes them hurry up next time around
” title=”Smiley” />"Active":3k6e19av wrote:How about giving these guys a break.[/quote:3k6e19av]Are you serious? If anything I reckon we’ve been too soft on them. They’re scam artists out to rip off the public. I see no reason to give them any break of any sort. Their scum and should be treated as such.
Apparently not.
I have a memory like a goldfish.
It’s not so much a matter of remembering it, but a matter of being able to process it whilst skating around huffing, puffing and concentrating on 20 other things at the same time. I saw someone elbow someone else the other day, but by the time it registered that I should have called a penalty, 10 seconds had passed and I felt like it was too late, so I just let it slide …. not good. I am slowly improving though and I don’t seem to miss (as many) obvious off-sides anymore.
Just got another phone call from Douglas Webber wanting me to point out the following PDF which they said explains everything about their event and should make us all happy and smiley about it.
http://internationalicehockey.co.nz/Pre … 2.3.11.pdf
It doesn’t seem to include any new information that we would find useful at all.
I also discovered that this is apparently a “NZ$100 million product” … http://www.theglobalindian.co.nz/christ … ke-events/
[quote:1ms7sb3l]Bringing the international series to Christchurch is not without its problems; the North American tour directors are cautious about letting their NZ$100 million product come to a broken city.[/quote:1ms7sb3l]Awesome start to their campaign
” title=”Smiley” />Apparently they were wearing black arm bands during their game today. I’m guessing that has something to do with the Japan and/or Christchurch earthquakes.
I’ll put that down as “their fault” then
” title=”Smiley” />Third question:
When I first tried refereeing, I was told that on a center spot face-off, the non puck dropping referee in a two man system, always skates in the direction of intial puck travel and the puck-dropping referee goes the other way. In practice, I find people tend to wander in whichever direction the flow the game takes them in.
This often screws things up when I bolt straight to whichever direction the puck travelled in off the face-off as we occasionally end up both manning the same line, which is silly.
Is there a standard procedure for this? Or should I just go with the flow as most referees seem to?
I’ve started “going with the flow” as best I can, simply because it seems to be working better with most of the referees I’m on with, but I’m not sure if that is the “correct” procedure or not. I’ve asked individual referees their opinion on this, but the responses vary wildly.
Since I’m in question asking mode, I’ll continue …
When the back referee or linesman sees a potential icing, they hold their right arm up. I’m not sure if they should wait till they know it’s going to go across the goal line, or if they should lift as soon as the puck crosses the center line and could possibly reach the goal line.
I got screwed up with this the other day, as I looked back to the other referee before the puck reached the goal line. They didn’t have their hand up, so I called off the icing, but about two meters before the goal line, the other referee (two man system) put their hand up. I’d already waved it off, so continued accordingly, but I’m not sure if that was my error, or the other referees fault.
My fault? Their fault? That is the question.
"Kyle":2bb2b4bx wrote:“1. The whistle shall not be blown by the official to start play.”[/quote:2bb2b4bx]That seems fairly clear then.
So blow the whistle to indicate changing from linesman to referee face-off, otherwise no whistle. I should be able to remember that
” title=”Smiley” />These scores may not look so crash hot, but I think they’re pretty good none the less considering they’re competing in a massively higher grade than what they have done in the past (I assume this is the first time they’ve been in DivII).
I received a phone call from the commerce commission today.
They are concerned about the situation, but say there’s not much they can do at this stage as there is no proof that the promoters are [b:23tsfuuu]explicitly[/b:23tsfuuu] breaking the fair trading act. They are very keen to hear back on any developments though, so please post here if you hear anything new on the subject and if it sounds like something they’d like to hear about, then I’ll forward it on.
ODT’s picked up on it now …
http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/other-sport/ … d-ice-taleThis is all getting beyond silly, so I’ve taken Chris’s approach and filed a complaint with the commerce commission too. I recommend you all do the same. The more people complaining, the more likely they are to do something about it.
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