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Dan Marouelli's Hockey Officiating Insight

Good ol' Dan Marouelli hasn't been on CBC lately.  That sucks.  Oh well, here is Dan's final NHL game:

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=0&id=65713


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"The Only Easy Day was Yesterday"


Since NHL hockey has been pretty quiet on the Tube lately, I have been watching "The Military Channel" a lot and I have been really into the "Navy SEAL's" stuff.  You know...killing Bin Laden and all.

In fact, my latest newsletter for Ultimate Officials has direct tie-ins with SEALs and even some football stuff.

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http://youtu.be/3DeSyl1CGIQ


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The "King of Almost"

I have also been "dialed in" to "The Voice" on NBC.  My latest newsletter also has a bit on perseverance and chasing your goals, with a tie-in to Tim Mahoney and "The Voice".  Tim Mahoney, raised in Minnetonka, MN and Tonka H.S. Alum, (I just saw this guy perform on May 7th at a fundraiser event for my daughter's Minnetonka elementary school) was on the show last week (got eliminated).  Think he is going to give up?  How easy do you give up?

http://youtu.be/-KMKP18En6I


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Summer Camp Updates

UO Has Got the BOOM!

A shout out goes the following boys for the Summer of 2011:

Minnkota Camp Acceptance:

Joel Omundson

Tim Ferrel

Zach Nelson

Robert Beckl

USA Hockey Regional Camp Acceptance:

Aaron Barlow

Jake Brenk

Ryan Szymanski

USA Hcokey National Camp Acceptance:

Nick Bradshaw

Ultimate Officials Spring Treadmill Camp:

Aaron Barlow

Clayton Smith

Nick Bradshaw

Norm Gaskins

Jake Brenk

Neil Missling

Kevin Cassidy

Tim Ferrel

Paul Gallmeier

Zach Nelson

Cameron Voss

What are you doing this summer?  www.UltimateOfficials.com

This summer proves to be better than the last one!

UO Summer 2010 from J.B. Olson on Vimeo.

"Get to The Net," says Dan

Get to the Net - See the Puck

May 9 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Sports/CBC%27s_Hockey_Night_in_Canada/1237534952/ID=1916564998

Notes:
1. Steve Kozari getting in position to make a crucial goal call.  Props!

2. OUCH - Dan goes after Walkom one more time, in regards to embellishment.

Diving  - NOT in Hockey, Boys!

Marouelli talks Caricllo and then Diving

That's water, not ice!

May 6 Link: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Sports/CBC%27s_Hockey_Night_in_Canada/Hockey_Night_Online/1350044207/ID=1912839308

Notes:
1. Everybody's favorite, Daniel Carcillo, out there cross checking guys in the back.

2. Zdeno Chara does some "playground justice", and Brian Murphy #93, US Linesman, puts his muscle into Chara.

3. Dan goes to task on my boy, Stephen Walkom, for letting Scott Hartnell go without a penalty.

4. Grapes has some words about "garbage" and "Oh Yeah!":
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Sports/CBC's_Hockey_Night_in_Canada/Coach's_Corner/1239402029/ID=1911222930

May 7 Embellishment Link:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Sports/CBC%27s_Hockey_Night_in_Canada/Hockey_Night_Online/1350044207/ID=1913854704

Notes:
1. No diving in hockey boys.

2. Which came first?: The hook or the "chicken wing".

3. Tunnel vision and sight lines.  You gotta "work the puck".

From the IIHF Worlds

Just posting these videos because: (A) they show the "one-man wrecking crew of  Evgeny Artyukhin, and (B) the game was refereed by Minnesota boy, Tom Sterns (he even has his name pronounced in Slovakian - "Toh-mass Sterns".

 

Good ol' Evgeny wasn't done after that previous series either! Like I said, "one-man wrecking crew":

(Sternsie gives the signal "hit him with the shoulder"). Arty got 4 PIMs in game for Interference:

CTE for Linesmen?

Tough Day at the Office?

Stick tap goes out to Adam Shadiow for sharing this (www.twitter.com/shadiow).

"#75 Derek Amell takes a wicked bad digger after Setoguchi slew foots Bertuzzi right under his legs.  Amell absolutely gets destroyed.  Bounces his head off the ice, then gets up like its nothing."

Whats' CTE?: Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University School of Medicine studies Chrinice Traumatic Encephalopathy:

Ever bounce your melon off the ice?  Maybe got concussed?  Not to be a downer, but more and more stuff has been coming out on how taken many shots to the head causes Alzheimer's type symptoms in ex-athletes.  

All I know is that the situation NHL Linesman, Derek Amell, was caught up in has been a spot that most, if not all, hockey officials have been caught in, including me.  You brace yourself...you say a quick "Hail Mary"...and hope for the best.  

Overall: ouch! (even if you don't admit it publicly).

Foot note: Dave Duerson's Suicide may have been a result of CTE

Link: http://www.bu.edu/cste/2011/05/03/nfl-player-dave-duerson-suffered-from-advanced-cte/