Abuse Of Officials(Penalties) 

Don't be naive, No one grows up wanting to work as Ref. In hockey because the sport is so expensive to run even for the leagues themselves , even in these clips of semi pro leagues, and I'm sure in the UK league ..those refs were players before, AND are players of other teams, coaches working as refs in games of different teams. they got their faves, in which they make calls for sometimes. and I'm sure some earned what they got. we all seen shitty refs in the NHL, so imagine the level and bias in lower leagues.

@@oriamir8994 you are horribly mistaken and deeply cynical if that is what you believe. I have been a minor league ref for 8 years and in my experience it is very very rare for a ref to favour one team or another out of loyalty or favouritism. It is far more common that a ref will hold a grudge against a team for doing something stupid like pushing another ref.

@@TopCheese79 you're right. Any ref or linesman that stops a fight should be knocked a few times. Let them fight till they're tired.

@@oriamir8994 you’d be wrong my dude. I know many refs being a ref myself that never played. I also know most refs in higher levels of playing aren’t from the zone they’re reffing in. Most people in general move far from Where they grew up and played.

@@richardhaighway4816 yeah and those refs end up losing they’re job and the league gets sued when a serious injury happens. You’d be surprised to know even refs that ref junior and senior hockey make a very good yearly income. I myself made more reffing than I did at my career. I have a decent playing career. Hockey you can ref all year round and it pays well.

Loool that’s the team trav4oilers was playing for

Thank you for letting us know!

@@lheps9795 This is such a shitty team

Im from Sweden.

Lite väl hårt straff kan jag tycka

HOW the fuck can you feel enlightened??? MONOTONE voice and comments

I like how they call it a “match”

He should have 10 years or more for that.

@@magnuspahlsson3531 Life.

2 years is plenty. He bruised the guys ego.

EIHL or NHL

I'll work on getting more positive videos uploaded. This makes the EIHL look bad, but they were the easiest to find.

@@Jens95 Thanks for including some EIHL clips. It's such a shame we don't have more hockey coverage here in UK. Maybe a best of EIHL clip video? Thanks.

@@FlamRackett I could make that happen.

@@Jens95 you're the best 💙

I only lost 5 hours of sleep and my sanity searching for the clips 😂

Sorry to hear that your career ended that way!

Thanks for the great content you post here nice work.

Thank you! I was trying to figure out if the language was French or German. I’m sorry your career ended. These clips are pretty hardcore. I think I’m going to have to start getting into European hockey, as well as the NHL.

i agree a player should never hit the ref, but how in hell that the ref didnt see that stick to the face XD jeez.

Rotter is such a good player yet so dirty... Grüße aus Vorarlberg

@Tuan Anh lol, even if you think about hitting a ref, or ref deserves to get hit, you are close to a psychopath, its their call. Live with it. Doing something against them wont do any better or give you a freaking medal, perhaps a very special kind of medal.

@Todesengel I hope youve grown as a person in the last 2 years, being physically assaulted for doing your job, even if its a poor job is never acceptable

@@tw1nn319 lets say youre a master home builder and you do the best job in your country. then I as a home inspector come along a fail your new build and everything I fail was in fact done right. but because I failed your new build you lose your license to build homes. still think I shouldn't be hit for doing a poor job? ruining your life by taking away your income is very much worth being punched in the face.

@@justinmiller5660 no… it’s not jack ass, you go to the courts and you deal with it the way it’s meant to be dealt. If everything WAS in-fact done correctly, it would be fairly easy to just get a new inspector to come and sign off on it. No harm done. You however would lose your inspectors license and not be able to make YOUR income. The only person that should have violence inflicted upon them is the person who committed the first act of violence. Umps are just doing their job, if an ump swings on a player, which doesn’t happen(vice-versa does), then sure, he can get hit.

@@tw1nn319 oh, see in this case the courts are on my side just like the league is on the refs side. you can go all you want but in the end they just say what the home inspector says in final. just like when you go to the league the league say the ref is right no matter what. but its nice to see nieve people still think a system build to work against them will somehow work for them if they just beg hard enough.

Wow yeah I didn’t even notice that wtf

They do look rather short, but I bet they are twice as wide, to accommadate the players, can't be sure though.

Cause in Europe we play on larger ice

​@@ventox3080thats gay

Bhahahaha

That deserves jail time.

Like the Komarov visor penalty?

@@harjatalonen3467 yeah. Like that

18 months suspension, but he never played in a competitive match afterwards Edit: He was actually prosecuted by state attorney but the charges were dropped later

My question is did his teammate get any punishment for his role in the fracas? The two officials (the one who drew the player's ire and a secondary official) are able to get the player broken away from his intended target...then one of his teammates rips the official away from the irate player, who then redoubles his attack on the original official. In that situation, either stay away from it or do something that speeds the conclusion (without injury to anyone)...he actively exacerbated the fight by pulling away the only person that was stopping the assault.

Keep in mind that this is a compilation video of stuff that doesn't normally happen. Everyone here was suspended, and some never played again. There is pretty much zero tolerance in hockey for physical contact directed at officials, although there is often incidental contact that goes unpunished when officials try to break up fights. There are also a couple of compilation videos of NHL players abusing officials. The most notorious recent one that it worth looking up is when Dennis Wideman had his brains scrambled by a hit into the boards and got up and crosschecked a linesman. He got a 20 game suspension for it.

@@GuyIncognito575 all good points. Will do.

The title of the video was wrong and I didn't catch it in time before going to work. Some of the clips make more sense in the fact that not everyone touched the official. Some were ejected for "intimidation"

There’s no such thing as an “official pick up” game and no such thing as a “somewhat official” game. The game is either official “being governed by an association of officials” or it’s not. And unfortunately, no your referees can’t hit you back. At least not if they like their jobs.

Are we gonna sit there and pretend anyone is gonna read the rulebook before actually defending themselves? That's why we don't punish self defence.

I dunno about being penalized *more*...there should definitely be some punishment for it, but nothing more than the aggressor.

Thank you for letting us know!

How long was he banned?

@@Hannoi 18 months (never played afterwards) and prosecution by state attorney (charges were dropped later)

true, this idiot deserved a face punch

Truuue, yelling stupid shit at a raging, 6ft, geared up dude is usually not the smartest idea. Definitely had it coming lol

I think Glasgow Clan are Scottish

@@zodrob7 most of them all come under the elite league

Also Austrian

Unfortunately, it's very easy to find clips that show the bad side of hockey or the league.

who is that player?

@@imnotcheeeese www.eliteprospects.com/player/37765/reed-seckel

I am a hockey referee (mostly work as a linesman but also do a lot of refereeing) anyway in a game where I was the ref we had a bit of shoving going on in front of the net after the whistle and one of my linesman who is a wrestler and is like 198cm tall, came between the players to observe and cool the situation down. Then some dudes started fighting and the other guy was not going to stop even after dropping the other guy to the ice. So he went to grab him when the player tried pushing him away almost punching him and he instinctively pushed him back on to the ice or like wrestled. Got a 12 game suspension on top of a fighting major which gives you like 3-5 games depending on the severity.

I'm sure if I digged deep enough I could find a clip 🤣

@@Jens95 Oh no, let's not! XD

@@heinzschmitt9661 Don't worry, I'm not that dedicated 😅

I'm sorry for making the EIHL look horrible, but they were the easiest clips to search for. I will work on more positive videos that don't make one league look like the LNAH.

@@Jens95 No no dont apologise for it, I was only joking haha.

@@Jens95 Don't feel sorry. You don't make the Elite Hockey League look bad, they do it all on their own. There is nothing elite about it.

It is cause the blue team ist gay I hate liwest blackwings Linz

He was looking at the puck and there was one player blocking his view. No way he could have seen that.

The cops would arrest the player leaving the ice for something like that here. Never touch someone who's not involved in the game.

And never seem to score

Those are probably cribbed from footage of a different commentator (not Jens) explaining (in a quite boring narration) why a penalty is a penalty (by the book).

Hi! Thank you!

@@Jens95 your welcome

So should Sid Crosby.

It does happen in the NHL, I've made 2 videos on it

It had already went in before he kicked it in

Oh, my friend, January 13

Canada 2021 world junior championships is going right now

And you are still angry about it? You feel the need to cry about it on the internet? Elsa, let it go

You need to remember, that if a goalie leaves his crease to either, join or start a fight, that goalie should receive an automatic game misconduct penalty. However, many Referees don’t call them that way. Also, where and when, does the “ third man in” rule apply?