Hmmm... Could We Have Something Here in the NHL?

Interesting story, in what is not being said (by the league) is more important than what's being said.

From Yardbarker:

The National Hockey League, last week, suspended referee Tim Peel for a meeting with Greg Wyshynski, a major hockey blogger at the Puck Daddy blog on Yahoo! Sports.

Peel thought Wyshynski was out of line for saying something on his blog, and decided, when the time was available, to take him out for a drink.

I've had that offer with more than a couple of people (not on this blog).  Usually, I'm so angry about a subject when it gets that far, though, that it takes a while for things to calm down, or things get so completely out of control, I'm thrown in the slammer!

So that's what the league told us.  Awful Announcing's Matt Yoder (Awful Announcing is where Yardbarker picked this up.) does a better job of explaining the real problem than I could about what the league DIDN'T tell us:

It seems more likely … and this is just a best-guess and intuition … that the NHL wasn’t too fond of Peel opening up about the relationship between the referees and league office and sat him for a game. It’s not a good look for the league that referees are only given two shirts and are responsible for washing them both in every city. Further, the league probably would rather not have certain emphases given to their refs aired and discussed in public. And most of all, the league really doesn’t want to see refs publicly comment and validate sentences like this one from Wysh, “In talking to Peel, you start to see a pattern: The NHL asks its officials to manage the game a certain way, and they have to do it.”

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