It’s Not OK!!!
An “Official” Intervention
This “Official” intervention isn’t about complaining or assigning blame, but genuinely wanting to find solutions that everyone can accept and implement.
Many, if not most, on-ice officials have direct, first-hand experience of being hockey players, hockey coaches, and hockey fans. We have an appreciation and familiarity with each of these roles that was earned from having worn those shoes … or skates, as the case may be.
However, very few hockey players, hockey coaches, hockey parents, or hockey fans have ever experienced officiating an actual hockey game at any level involving actual hockey coaches and players, in front of actual hockey fans.
Anyone who has ever experienced officiating a real game, will immediately and forever change the way that they perceive those who are wearing the striped jerseys.
This initiative will develop and deliver a set of tools designed to facilitate alignment between on-ice officials and the players, coaches, families and fans for whom they officiate.
Ultimately, we will provide the closest experience to actually letting players, coaches, parents, and fans put on the stripes and better understand what on-ice officials go through every time they lace up their skates.
100% Human
On-ice officials are certainly not perfect, nor do we profess to be. We get some of them right, we get some of them wrong … we hope that we get many more correct, than not.
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On-ice officials are certainly not perfect, nor do we profess to be. We get some of them right, we get some of them wrong … we hope that we get many more correct, than not.
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On-ice officials are certainly not perfect, nor do we profess to be. We get some of them right, we get some of them wrong … we hope that we get many more correct, than not.