![]() Referee Tim Peel no longer will be working NHL games now or in the future. Today, the league made what on the surface, looks like a huge announcement: Peel would no longer be calling games, ending his 21-year career on the spot. Suffice to say, it threw a lot of people off, and the NHL confirmed that it would be investigating before the night was over. ![]() Rarely, though, do we get to hear a referee flat out say it in stunningly clear quality on a broadcast, then amplified onto social media. This, of course, goes against how the rules should actually work, but it’s the way hockey has been called for most of our lifetimes. Penalty differential tends to find its way to 0 in the long term, and if there’s a difference in powerplay goals, it usually means the scorers are going to be seen under more scrutiny. At that point, the penalty count was 1-0 Detroit, and that penalty – coincidentally against Arvidsson, who was interfered with by Adam Erne – led to a powerplay goal just 18 seconds into the man advantage. According to Matt Duchene, this remark was made to Filip Forsberg, telling the Nashville bench straight up what the intention was.Īll you need to do to figure out why Peel felt this way is look at the box sheet. A few minutes after the infraction, referee veteran Tim Peel was caught on-mic by Fox Predators’ broadcast saying “It wasn’t much, but I wanted to get a fucking penalty against Nashville early in the period”. To summarize, in an evening game between the Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators, Viktor Arvidsson was penalized for tripping Jon Merrill. Not in shock of what happened, but in that it was said so overtly. "It wasn't much but I wanted to get a fuckin' penalty against Nashville early in the…" #Preds #LGRW /6fZImkdqLrĪll this is to say, last night shook the hockey world a little. Maybe if you're a mic'd up ref, you shouldn't express how you wanted to call a penalty against a team earlier in the game, changing how you ref the rest of the game. Most notably in 2019 when I wrote about the best way to exploit the paradoxes of Game Management (spoilers: get good at special teams, and then play dirtier), and this year when I showed how those in Toronto who were starting to get frustrated about this had a point, and how the entire league has this issue. Here at The Faceoff Circle, I’ve gone into detail on this topic a few times. The belief that one must “let them play” and that the officials “can’t decide games”, even if allowing infractions prevents proper play and decides the games. The belief that a fairly called game is one where each team gets equal opportunity on special teams, even when one team is breaking more rules. I’m talking about the belief that calling penalties is a bigger disturbance to the game than the penalties themselves. ![]() I, of course, am talking about “Game Management”, or the rather subjective form of officiating that plagues not just the highest level of the sport, but all levels of the game. “You’re not so much worried about what’s going on in those situations as we’ve got to be able to kill the penalty, we’ve got to be ready to play, and that’s what I really liked about our team’s reaction to that situation,” Hynes said.On Tuesday night, the NHL had it’s most open secret blurted out. Predators coach John Hynes deflected when asked after the game about Peel's comments, but instead praised his team for how it responded to the penalty. Peel and Kelly Sutherland were the officials working the game and NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly and director of officiating Stephen Walkom told The Athletic that the league was investigating the comments. The comment came just after Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson was called for a tripping penalty in the second period. “It wasn't much, but I wanted to get a (expletive) penalty against Nashville early,” the official was heard saying before the microphone shut off. During the TV broadcast, a then-unidentified official was heard saying he wanted to call a penalty against Nashville. The comment came Tuesday night in a 2-0 Predators victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
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