McGlynn snagged it - but the door was equipped with a pneumatic-type device to stop it from slamming so Peel was able to reach inside before it completely shut. “He’s definitely gonna try to come in and talk to us.'” “I told Sean, ‘Hey, grab the key out of the door so (Peel) can’t open it,’” Boren told The Athletic. A 56-year-old former NHL ref with a son on the Knights and, at times, a coach alongside former NHL players Jamal Mayers and Matt Lashoff, Peel had a reputation for paying visits to the referee’s room, whether he’d been invited or not, the two teenaged officials said. Louis Sting 7-2, screaming for their opponents to “go f-” themselves.Īs Boren and McGlynn signed their game papers, they saw Tim Peel approach. 15 game they’d just worked was a challenging one that featured two coach ejections and an enraged, profane group of parents from one side.Īs they walked to the room, the teenaged officials heard parents from the St. He and Sean McGlynn - 17-year-old classmates, teammates, close friends and youth hockey referees with a level of experience that outstrips their age - were hustling back to the referee’s room at the St. While the Preds have enjoyed a two-game win streak, they are well behind the Central Division's top teams like the Tampa Bay Lightning and Carolina Hurricanes.The ref room key was going to be a problem. The Predators are now 15-17 on the season, and currently sit sixth in the Central Division standings. 'The referees are employees of the league and rather than me comment on it, it’s an issue that I think the league will have to take care of,' said Hynes in a report by the Associated Press. While the Predators ended up winning Tuesday's game 2-0, they were called for four penalties compared to three for Detroit, and head coach John Hynes tried to take the high road on officiating matters. While complaints about officiating are commonplace all throughout sports, it is very rare that the integrity of a league's officiating is blatantly cast as questionable in the way Peel's comments did for the NHL. Peel's termination brings an abrupt end to an officiating career that he was planning to close out in a few weeks' time, as he had planned to retire by the end of the 2020-21 season. 'There is no justification for his comments, no matter the context or his intention, and the National Hockey League will take any and all steps necessary to protect the integrity of our game.'

'Tim Peel's conduct is in direct contradiction to the adherence to that cornerstone principle that we demand of our officials and that our fans, players, coaches and all those associated with the game expect and deserve. 'Nothing is more important than ensuring the integrity of our game,' read a statement by Colin Campbell, NHL Senior Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations. 'It wasn't much but I wanted to get a fuckin' penalty against Nashville early in the.' #Preds #LGRW /6fZImkdqLr Maybe if you're a mic'd up ref, you shouldn't express how you wanted to call a penalty against a team earlier in the game, changing how you ref the rest of the game. 'It wasn't much, but I wanted to a get a penalty against Nashville early in the.', said Peel. Initially, the call appeared to be ticky-tack, and the reasoning behind the penalty was revealed by Peel in a smoking gun of a hot mic comment caught by the Predators' television broadcast. The incident occurred in the second period of the game when Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson was called for tripping Red Wings defenseman Jon Merrill. On Wednesday morning, the NHL announced that referee Tim Peel will no longer work games 'now or in the future' after an incident in a Tuesday night game between the Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators. With the sudden emergence of a scandal concerning the integrity of their officiating, the National Hockey League has quickly nipped things in the bud by terminating the referee responsible.

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