Kings at Bruins - 1/30/10
TSN highlight link to the game (you'll see a couple of sweet shoot out goals)
(pay attention to the GREAT organ music - I love that so much more than canned loud stuff)
1:15 - David Brisebois #96 has big-time patience and awareness on line call
2:00 - Mark Stuart, born and bred MN boy, just destroys Anze Kopitar - Brisebois and #95 Jonny Murray right on the scene
3:00 - Murray gets smoked in the back off an end zone drop.
Question: You got any good (or bad) getting hit by the puck stories? Once when I was working a Wisconsin vs. Minnesota game, I took a clearing shot that ricocheted funny off the glass partition and hit me in the helmet, right behind the ear. I got some kind of blood hematoma and right behind my left ear I had this big lump for about 4 days.
How about you?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Same situation in HS game. End zone drop and the D goes to clear zone with a slap shot. Hits me square in the back and I dropped to a knee. Took my undershirt off after the game and it was bloody. The skin was all peeled to one side from the rotation of the puck.
That was a nasty shot to take in the back. I couldn't imagine taking that. I guess that's why those guys make the big bucks.
I had a situation in a Junior A game. I was a linesman and while I was standing along the board on the far blue line. A player rifles a clear high off the boards. I managed to move my head out of the way just enough to the point where the puck caught my half shield.
It left a huge scuff mark along the right side. It was bad enough to the point that I needed a new visor.
Getting out of the way is sometimes the hardest thing to do as a referee. We think these kids (or adults) know what is going on and where people are. Apparently they like to forget about us.
I was evaluated doing a U18 Midget AAA game. The only critique the supervisor had for me was my positioning. It's so hard to be in position in a fast, unpredictable game.
I've gotten hit with shots twice in a row. I've gotten hit on my arms, my legs, my back, my chest, my shoulders and my head once. It's tough to not get hit anymore.
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