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Oh wow….i didn’t realize that. He must have not been ranked in the upper half often. Playoff games are all about your ranking/ratings.
Almost the Jeff Skinner of reffing
Completely disagree. You work 75 “days” (a gameday is what? 4-5 hours?) a year with summers off for 200k to 500k+ depending on seniority. If you have to go over that for playoffs you get bonused out. Linesman have comp a little worse. And going outside the scope of HFB no one knows who the hell you are nor do you have to answer for anything. CBA protects your job.
You realize that the 3 hour game is not the only time they are at “work”. They have to train almost non-stop to make sure they can keep up with the game, most are older than the players, they have daily meetings, and have to be at the rink hours before the game to look over game notes and player tendencies (more meetings). All while being on the road for 8 months of the year in highly stressful situations.
Widely regarded as the worst referee in the league.
Ehh, I'd take that over laying brick and destroying your body only to have to likely work until the day you die
There are so many jobs with higher risk of injury. And most don't pay $250k to work 2 or 3 times a week for 3 hours
There are certainly harder and less rewarding jobs than that, but why make an ignorant comment like that?
He was too ethical. Hate to see him retire since he was a good ref.
Didn’t have Crypto Guy as a passionate defender of officials on my bingo card but he’s a man (?) of intrigue!
daily meetings? Have to prepare beforehand? Almost sounds like a job. Sounds like the 75 days they work are closer to 8 hour days. So that’s still way better than the avg person who works 260 before holidays/PTO. (And I understand it’s not just limited to those gamedays, but I’m showing the sheer difference to a normal employee)
You are so out of touch, do you have any idea how hard it is to make it as an NHL Linesman or Referee....They start by doing Novice/Pee Wee games and get screamed at by idiot parents, idiot coaches and idiot kids 10 times a week. Confronted often in parking lots. About 75% of young referees quit in their first year. If they don't quit, they go on to Midget and then if really good, possibly the WHL, OHL or QMJHL, where they're again constantly lambasted by fans and coaches, and now media. The guys who make it to the NHL are the cream of the crop, and have earned every penny of your so called "Easy Job". It's just like anything in life, if you're the top 0.1% you have earned it, and kudos to them. That's the way life works my friend. Sure once they get to the top it may look easy to you, but it's a LONG road to get there.
