disturbedhockeyfan

25 minutes ago, Lifelongbender said:

Agreed all around that the security guy failed in his basic duty and should never be hired to work a PIHL game again.

However, I have to disagree with the first sentence I left above. The vast majority of yelling at the referees that I hear is parents who have been watching their kids play for years and still don't understand what a hook or a trip is. Most of the yelling I hear comes from people who have no idea what they are talking about.

Finally, even if the criticism is warranted, is yelling like a five year old having a tantrum a good idea? Let's ask the refs on this forum to weigh in on how often they change the way they're calling a game in favor of the parents whining from the stands, shall we? As a coach I can tell you I hate it when parents make fools of themselves this way. You can sometimes discuss a call from the bench with a ref and at least get a makeup call, and the better guys in the business either explain and keep going the way the have been or make adjustments if you make a good point. Screaming parents make that hard to do.

This is well put. Let me make another point as well: just as there is a shortage of fast food workers and waiters that makes your wait time longer at restaurants and there is a shortage of flight attendants and pilots that cancel your flights there is an extreme shortage of referees. They are burnt out, tired of skating 10 games a weekend and every week night, and naturally you’re going to have less talented officials on the ice because that’s all that is available. Screaming at them and “punishing” them won’t help this scenario. And as much as you keep wanting to complain about the officiating, keep in mind that the soon arriving alternative is canceled games due to no officials being available. 
 

Food for thought on this chilly Saturday afternoon. 

On 1/6/2022 at 12:34 PM, BACKCHECKING said:

Any update on how the young lady is doing, have any changes been implemented and enforced, did the referees get any repercussions?

I can confirm that the referees received no repercussions from this and you are an absolute moron for thinking that they should be punished. Crowd control is not the job of the referee, check the USA hockey rule book and every officiating class ever taught. The crowd control responsibility falls on the sleepy security guard in the lobby who PIHL employs at every game for such instances. The security guard should be crowd controlling instead of sleeping in the lobby like most of them do. Has anyone mentioned that the guard is the one who deserves to not be hired to another game ever again?