![]() “Nothing is more important than ensuring the integrity of our game,” Campbell said in a statement. Colin Campbell, the NHL’s senior executive vice-president (hockey operations) announced Wednesday that Peel “will no longer be working NHL games now or in the future.” It was the first time he got caught talking about it and it ended up costing him his job. The 53-year-old Peel has been an NHL referee since 1999 and has worked 1,334 games, so it certainly wasn’t the first time he was looking to make an “even-up” penalty call. The Predators finished the game with four penalties - including one for shooting the puck over the glass - and the Red Wings had three. It would have been nothing more than just another “even-up” penalty if Peel hadn’t been caught saying what he did. ![]() Peel was probably looking to call an “even-up” penalty - something that is also a big part of NHL officiating - after the only penalty in the first period went to the Red Wings’ Adam Erne for interference. Peel made the call from centre ice and replays showed Merrill embellished his fall. “It wasn’t much, but I wanted to get a (expletive) penalty against Nashville early in the …” Peel was caught saying as the TV broadcast was heading to a commercial break at the 7:18 mark of the second period.Īt 4:56 of the second period, Peel called the Predators’ Viktor Arvidsson for tripping the Red Wings’ Jon Merrill in the offensive zone. The inconsistency in NHL officiating has been a problem for a long time and it was highlighted Tuesday during a game between the Nashville Predators and Detroit Red Wings when referee Tim Peel was caught on a hot microphone saying he wanted to call a penalty against the Predators. In-game video reviews have become like flipping a coin and who knows what the “war room” in Toronto will decide? Does anyone know what goalie interference is now? It also doesn’t make sense that George Parros - a former “enforcer” who had 18 goals and 1,092 penalty minutes in 474 career NHL games - is running the Department of Player Safety. The NHL “Department of Player Safety” always seems to look for every little reason not to suspend a player for a dirty and/or dangerous hit instead of focusing on why that player should be suspended. The NHL still wants bare-knuckle fighting to be part of the game and continues to bury its head in the sand when it comes to the long-term effects, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - a neurodegenerative disease most experts agree is linked to repetitive head trauma. Photo by Jonathan Hayward / CANADIAN PRESS Montreal Canadiens’ Joel Armia flies through the air after a hit by Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers, 57, as Canucks right-wing Brock Boeser goes into the boards during third period in Vancouver on Jan. ![]() Meanwhile, some headshots are legal and others aren’t. Any high stick, intentional or unintentional, is an automatic penalty - unless the two referees on the ice miss it, which happens too often. So if a player breaks an opponent’s jaw with a high stick and there’s no blood it’s two minutes, but if you knick his lip and it bleeds just a little bit it’s four minutes.Īnd don’t get me started on headshots. If a player accidentally hits a player in the face with a high stick it’s an automatic two-minute penalty, but if the high-stick draws blood it’s four minutes. If a player accidentally shoots the puck over the glass in the defensive zone it’s an automatic penalty. But in the NHL putting the whistles away somehow seems to make sense since it continues every year in the playoffs.
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