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You are the one calling people "human garbage," yet I am the triggered one? Do yourself a favor, bro. Press eject and move on. I think your anger meds are wearing off.

So this officiating thing is very comparable to their current climate surrounding law enforcement. You have a minority of people who ruin it for the masses. Then blanket labels start getting thrown around. Here is reality as I see it. Most referees are trying to do their job adequately and leave. Are they thick skinned and sometimes aloof? Absolutely, they had to be. Common sense tells you that. The amount of absolute nonsense these guys have to put up with is not even worth the job in my opinion. As I mentioned earlier, they can’t get through a two minute sequence of the game without some parent from either team yelling about something. Or a coach throwing a temper tantrum. It should be widely acknowledged, during the famed parent meetings at the beginning of the season, that it is not a referees job to call every single infraction that happens on the ice. You may not understand it, but that’s reality. These women and men are there to moderate a collision sport that moves a lot faster than the average person can process it. Yes they will be wrong sometimes not nearly, even remotely as close as the vitriol from the stands indicates.