Concern about the level of officiating

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(07-12-2018, 09:29 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX5RL1zcAbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na-47FvX9UY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLs4uVXj-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5Cx88uvV4

Are you sure about that?

The first three vids, those guys are unbearable, but they have a few things the last vid doesn't have.

All of these mistakes were correctable after a week or so; 8 weeks to fix and still nothing, is terrible.

Thank you for posting those videos, as I did forget about those gaffes. However, that doesn't change my opinion because it emphasizes that they did mess some things up but they didn't control the outcome of the game with penalty calls like the normal refs do by calling penalty after penalty. I still feel that the normal refs have always been way too nitpicky and too quick to call penalties whereas the replacement refs seemed to keep the flag in their pockets unless something was blatantly obvious.

To be fair, this may be because when I played hockey, I most often enjoyed refs that allowed us to get away with the small things. When we had the one ref that called every little thing, it became incredibly frustrating to stop play every couple minutes because of little things.