Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
Is there a better ref in all of sports?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lKo2QojBQI think not. The fans love him and the players voted him as the best ref in the league. There are a shit ton of refs, officials, and umpires who draw attention to themselves by being shitbags. This guy is just having fun and keeping everyone lose while controlling the game.
I think the keeping-guys-loose part is an understated part of hockey officiating. NHL referees tend to give as good as they get with the players, and in a league where punching someone in the face is only a five-minute penalty, they can't make a spectacle out of ejecting a guy for being rude. All officials are worthy of criticism, but NHL refs the least so. They're the least incompetent, the least sensitive, and the least mob-connected.
Who was the one who said "fuck you, you're getting an embellishment" to James Neal? Yelling "fuck you" to James Neal, that's livin' the dream.
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.