Last Updated: Apr 23, 2021 10:43 AM
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Referee Tim Peel was released by the National Hockey League, not so much for making a ” make-up call ” or a ” game management call “, but rather for inadvertently having his intention boomed out on the in-house microphone.
As I said at the time, the ” even-up ” call is as much a part of hockey officiating as the whistle.
And then I got thinking about ” game management ” calls and was reminded that on their path to the 2011 Ontario Hockey League Championship, the Owen Sound Attack benefited twice.
First on Saturday April 23rd in Game 3 of the Western Final against Windsor. With the series tied at 1 win apiece and the Spitfires leading 4-3 with 5 minutes to go at the Bayshore, Windsor’s Jake Carrick punched Jesse Blacker.