Hockey Referee Quotes

Some people say hockey is like religion, but that's wrong. Hockey is like faith. Religion is something between you and other people; it's full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith...that's just between you and God. It's what you feel in your chest when the referee glides out to the center circle between two players, when you hear the sticks strike each other and see the black disk fall between them. Then it's just between you and hockey. Because cherry trees always smell of cherry trees, whereas money smells of nothing

Bart Palacio doesn’t have anything better to do than yap on Twitter?” “He says: Actually, we won that game. With better referees, and no bad penalty calls, it was 1-0 in our favor.” She groans. “He’s the Donald Trump of hockey.

The Cambridge contingent got so loud that one Kitchener mother screamed over to us to be quieter because, in her words, 'the kids can't hear the (referee's) whistle.' After Kitchener scored late in the game to regain the lead, the mother who had yelled at us earlier suddenly bolted from her seat, grabbed a clapper from one of our moms and clapped it so aggressively in the Cambridge mother's face that she broke the Dollar Store item in the process. Tensions between both sets of parents escalated from strained to hostile in a matter of seconds.

Sports in general, and hockey specifically, forced those lessons on us all, and they stuck with us for a lifetime. No coaches to tell you what to do. No parents to tell you how to behave. No referees to tell you what’s fair. And no linesmen to break up trouble if someone loses his temper. Yes, that’s freedom. But it’s also responsibility—we had to figure things out for ourselves or there wouldn’t have been those day-long games we loved so much. Unfortunately, in many respects those long-ago days are a world removed from what we see today.