GLENS FALLS, N.Y. There’s no rest between shifts for referees and linesmen. They’re on the ice for 60 minutes of every game, meaning they not only have to be elite skaters but extremely fit and mentally alert to officiate one of the world’s fastest, hard-hitting sports while keeping track of a three-inch-wide puck as combatants […]
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. There’s no rest between shifts for referees and linesmen. They’re on the ice for 60 minutes of every game, meaning they not only have to be elite skaters but extremely fit and mentally alert to officiate one of the world’s fastest, hard-hitting sports while keeping track of a three-inch-wide puck as combatants fire it around the rink. Riley Yerkovich is charged with assigning the ECHL’s 35 referees and 165 linesmen to 28 arenas from Florida to Newfoundland and west to Boise, Idaho, and making sure they do a good job. “To put it simply, I knew that […]
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