Linesman throws a hit on Peyton Krebs

I usually like to defend the officials, but I have no defense here. I have no idea what he was doing off the boards in that position or what he was thinking there.

Yeah. Once he is there and stuck, he just has to stay, yell out to players where he is and hope for the best, but for the life of me I can't figure out why he would be there in the first place.

Stepipng off the boards a bit to give the the player the boards, glass fo dump in happens a lot, but this is nowhere near step off the boards territory.
 
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Yeah. Once he is there and stuck, he just has to stay, yell out to players where he is and hope for the best, but for the life of me I can't figure out why he would be there in the first place.

Stepipng off the boards a bit to give the the player the boards, glass fo dump in happens a lot, but this is nowhere near step off the boards territory.

What I will say in a possible defense of the linesman is that the clip doesn't show what the play looked like leading up to the hit happening. Maybe he did have a decent enough reason to be where he was. I just can't tell from the clip why he was there in the first place.
 
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Since when do the officials ever follow the actual rule book :sarcasm:

Positioning isn't actually described in the rule book. :P

They actually follow the guidance on where they're supposed to be on the ice pretty well. Except one game I went to where the Coyotes hosted the Panthers, and the game was pretty boring for some reason, so I spent a good amount of the game watching the back referee skate around in circles in the neutral zone, presumably because he was as bored as I was.
 
He actually helped Peyton who decided to just skate straight. If the linesman went to the boards he would have taken all the space away from him. There was a lot of space around him and a perfect pick from the linesman, but Peyton wanted things to be fair.
 
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