The Most HATED Referee in NHL History... 

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Auger 'retiring' is the most transparent firing in the history of the world. He was fired, yet allowed to remain some dignity with the NHL publicly stating that he simply quit. It's a common business practice.

I always say, I trust WWE referees more than I trust NHL referees.

By today's NHL Officiating standards, Auger is just a regular NHL ref.

As a referee Kerry Fraser was maybe worst but at least he was not gross and despicable as Auger.

Tim Peel needs a video. I was at the Nashville - Vancouver game and it was crazy

I was a d coach for a high school JV team. I had multiple players complaining about a ref being drunk and smelling like booze. He also was interfering in plays and was doing odd things on the ice. Head ref was near our box, I politely told him that the boys smell alcohol on that ref. I was immediately kicked out of the game and got a 3 game suspension. While the drunk ref was allowed to continue. I was approached by a man I've seen at our rink once in awhile, he questioned my claim, I found out he was the president of USA Hockey, he followed that ref every game, and about 2 weeks he got him and discharged him.

I was at that Canucks game. The officiating was brutal the whole game but the Burrows penalties were so obviously targeted it was an embarrassment for the league. We were all stunned.

I don't know about that I'd say Don Koharski is pretty up there

Kerry Fraser for sure

As a habs fan nobody did a worst job than chris lee

One can't help but think that Auger was fixing games for bookmakers.

How did I know this would be mostly french Canadians? Because they're in my family and unbelievably stubborn and touchy about everything regardless of their actual level of skill or expertise on pretty much any topic. 😂 Shane Doan story is a perfect example.

It's rather interesting that Auger only had the Doan controversy up until the Burrows incident (and there were quite a few years there) and he has a half dozen afterwards. Either he suffered a severe deterioration in skill for some reason or the Burrows incident put every fan and every player on notice to watch this guy

Kerry Fraser and Bill McCreary were the worst for my money. Fraser seemed to think the fans paid to see him perform, calling trifling penalties while allowing flagrant offenses to go unpunished, while nobody could lose complete control of a game the way McCreary consistently did.

Kerry Fraser was a total goof

that referee should have been suspended indefinitely after that Nashville game

I think the blackouts are a form of false advertisement. The games are advertised all week, game time comes, game is blacked out.... WTF.... Pay $200 a month for cable, and black out the f'in games, such a pile of crap...

LOL $2500 fine for a millionaire hockey player is like one of us watching this video being fined $25 dollars or heck $2.50! Oh no I am sure Burrows really felt that fine. 🤣

My first thought when I saw the title was Tim Peel.

Here in Germany I feel like we have alot of bad refs as well. Just 2 days ago I was actually angry since they did not call a blindside check, did not call a very obvious holding of a stick, but later called a high stick but overlooked that the player who got the penalty was being held at the same time. It was a high stick, but you also need to call the 2 minutes holding at the same time. And as it often is the case, that powerplay decided the game in the end. While the NHL clearly is faster and has higher skill level in comparison, it feels like the league and players improve every year while refs stay at the same level, which means it feels it is getting worse and worse. But what do I know, I am just a fan...

For those of you old enough to remember the Bobby Orr days, this was by far one of the most egregious calls in NHL History. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JqJN8AIc8ck.html Wally Harris ejecting Bobby Orr for protesting an obvious non call. Wally Harris was in my opinion the worst ref in NHL history. He didn't even try to be subtle about calling games one sided. This game was one of the reasons they stopped selling bottled beer at games....

Wes McCauley don't even get me started on

Donut Don Koharski 🍩

Koharski

Anyone given the chance to appeal their "retirement" obviously didn't quit his job. 100% fired.

Anytime Bruce hood reffed a hBs game at the forum in Montreal..painful how obvious his bias for the Canadiens were

He was forced to retire because the players were starting to hit him, and the next step was getting stabbed with the skate😂😂

Nope its Kerry Fraser.

In the 19070's The Canadian's always had seven players on the ice in Montreal.

At the AHL level I’d say Terry Koharski. As an Ontario Reign fan I hated it when he refereed our games. The typical “Ref you suck” chant would change to “Koharski you suck or Koharski Sucks”

Written 4/1/2024 Stephane Auger, a name that once stirred considerable controversy in the NHL, remains a figure of intrigue and discussion long after his departure from the league. Auger's career as an NHL referee was marked by incidents that sparked debates on officiating integrity, player-referee dynamics, and the pressures faced by officials in professional sports.....

The worst thing about hockey games, or any other sport, is bad officiating. All calls should be assessed by the League in question and officials should be disciplined accordingly. The league should have the power to overturn a bad call during the game so that the officials don't ruin the game. That is my opinion and I truly believe that it would be a lot better for everyone to have officials accountable for their actions.

i remember being at a wings and I wanna say sharks game and a ref got hit and like spun around when he jumped over a puck but the players were there and took his legs out on accident. landed pretty awkwardly.

You should go over the Tim Peele incident. Also, Wes McCauley and his history of horrible blown calls and phantom calls. Or how about Justin St. Pierre? Here are a few quotes from NHL players when polled by The Athletic about the worst refs a few years back: "St. Pierre may be the most arrogant human being I’ve ever seen. It’s honestly like he hates the players. He treats everybody like shit." - a Central Division player. “[St. Pierre] is the worst. Bar none. Bar. None.” - a Metro Division player. “I hate picking [St. Pierre] because he’ll probably be happy if he wins it.” - a Metro Division player.

Don't forget Don "Donut" Koharski...

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2 years ago he commented on a play reviewing an offside live in a Montreal's game. I called to my girlfriend "that's clearly not an offside, Tatar never touched the puck before the other guy came out and at one point every player's skates are outside of the zone" he went on air and said "that is CLEARLY an offside, there's no way this goal will count. We have the perfect exemple of a goal that will be overturned by Toronto". Turns out I was right and he looked dumb. I know it was not his job to call offsides in the NHL but come on...

As an Ottawa Senators fan, Dean Morton on the ice guaranteed blown calls and inconsistent reffing every single game. Although not as notable as Auger who actively went above and beyond in the shit department, it was brutal just watching incompetency every single night

As much as I could disagree with a referee's actions, I could never bring myself to wish injury to someone, especially a referee. His "Firing" is as far as it goes for me. He's gone, so the problem is solved.

Dan Marouelli belongs in this conversation

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I'd like to add a positive note and name my favorite ref whom usually was very level headed and unbiased IMO: Don Van Massenhoven aka the ref with the mustache. I think the NHL lost a very important referee when he retired. Nowadays I'd say Eric Furlatt does a tremendous job, especially when he works on Canadiens games because he shows absolutely no sign of bias whatsoever. Very good ref. I think the game is much faster than it ever was and it's very difficult for refs to see everything. IMO they should add one more ref, a retired veteran, who would watch the game just like we do on a screen and make the calls with some "electronic whistle" button or something, kinda like they already do when there's a goal and the puck somehow got out of the net without anyone noticing and the play continues. This or they add sensors to sticks, the puck, skates and helmets to keep track of player movement. But I'd rather have a more human aspect to it even if it meant more mistakes would be made.

Bruce for sure, too. He let too many obvious penalties go when the Islanders were Playing The Rangers on The Night Before Christmas 🤶 Eve on 12/23/1978. One penalty inparticular Involving The Late Mike Bossy, who had Wayne Thomas beat, but he got tripped from behind. Hood didn't call a penalty or penalty shot. But both Trots, who was having the biggest night of his career, got revenge against Bruce Hood when he scored his 2nd goal of the night (5 total along with 3 points) on a breakaway, and Boss got his revenge by getting in between 2 Rangers and scoring his 2nd goal of the night. When then they did that, the message was you're not going to make them pay, we will.

And here I thought this was a video on Chris Lee

I bet Stéphane Auger and Angel Hernandez are besties.

I know who Jim Schoenfeld would pick

Ottawa used to give Auger a box of Joe Louis and a six pack of Pepsi to influence his reffing..

He looks like a frenchman.

This guy was an embarrassment to the league. A total clown.

Kevin Pollock, I’ll never forget 2017

If you sued coderre for his chocolate bars, he' be flipping like a pancake.

Refs just following the script

He loved lots of pepper on his frogs.

Damn, this should be a series. Every team has a story about being screwed in playoffs.

I was hoping you'd spend 11 minutes dumping on Don Koharski because I absolutely hated that guy back when I was watched a lot more hockey than I do now.

What a joke! A commercial cloaked in an interesting story. You deserve a penalty for misleading. Game misconduct.

I am from Montreal and watch my games in French but not on Saturdays (shown on TVA Sports). I switch to the English broadcast for those, because It's unwatchable. Auger can barely put a sentence together and Patrick Lalime (Color guy), is just repeating the same 25 words in different order,, "Ca, j'adore ca." "J'adore ca, ca." "Ca, ca, j'adore ." "Ca, c'est ce que j'adore ca." The entire team that works at TVA for the games are rejects from other channels that can barely speak French, eventhough it's their first language.

Game 7 in 2013 Blackhawks Vs Red Wings. Hawks climbed back into the series after going down 3 games to 1 and scored a beautiful goal with under 3 minutes left in the 3rd of game 7. It looked like it would be the game winning goal until it was called back because Brandon Saad got dumped into the bench and went to grab the Red Wings players jersey to brace for the fall (or he swung at him from his back) the referee literally called the penalty as the puck was entering the net and sure enough it was called back. It was a minor penalty for both teams and they are taught to wait to make the call if it’s behind the play & during a scoring chance. Instead he put his arm up as the shot was being taken and the Hawks were robbed. Luckily Seabrook called game in OT and the rest is history. Still the worst call I’ve ever seen.

That poor wife and 3 kids.

As an ice hockey player, I was asked to referee a number of matches, after 2 matches I called it a day because I wouldn't do anything right according to the people on the side. I tried to whistle as honestly and as well as possible, but apparently people don't know. on the side it is always better to have deep respect for the referees in all sports

When I was coaching there was a ref who was notorious in the league. My dad was the head coach and he wasn't generally rude to the refs, but he stuck up for his players. I guess the ref didn't like the comments about his blatant one sided officiating (calling a trip on a player who wasn't on the ice, getting a call deficit of like 1-4, missing a blatant head shot right in front of him resulting in a concussion) and gave my dad hit "warning" before the team was even on the ice. Needless to say, he got kicked out for a comment by one of the other coaches, not even his own. Never had a problem with any other ref. Some of these guys let that miniscule amount of power go to their head.

THE one referee is Don "have another doughnut" Koharski.

That's what real hating is all about! How come players have 5 cars? He'll hate on a player until he's broke, alone and has nothing like him.

I question every ref, officiating flyers game 😂😂😂Lol

I've never watched hockey before, besides fight compilations, so I'm just going to assume this guy is the Angel Hernandez of the hockey world before I watch this lol

After the NSH VCR fiasco and the fallout I watched the papers closely for the next year and a half. I think that was the last time Auger worked on the West Coast. He may have had another game or two scheduled after the Vancouver game before going back east, but never crossed the Rockies again to work an NHL game. It was almost a full year before he was even assigned to work a Canucks game again when they went east. Not mentioned in this video was that after the league said 'nothing to see here' following the Burrows alllegations, the Canucks released video they had sent to the NHL from cameras at the arena to show that there clearly was a conversation. Burrows would have been the zen master of all time had he quickly written down what happened after the warmup, tossed it into an envelope and given it to a reporter with the instructions to open it only after the game.

That Oshie hit though...

If you're a Leafs fan you got to believe it's Kerry Frazer

The Joe West/ Angel Hernandez of the NHL. At least in hockey, you can "accidentally" get him back. They "get in the way of the play" a lot.

WHEN I SAW THE MOST HATED TITLE I AUTOMATICALLY THOUGHT OF KERRY FRASER, AND I HAVEN'T WATCHED AN N.H.L. GAME FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

Burrows grabbed the Pred players stick then took a dive, that was a good call.

Now he's Hockey Québec's executive director of operations. Go figure...

When the Flyers were on HBO for their Winter Classic coverage there was a game in Montreal, where a Habs dman went down to try to take the puck from Jagr and completely missed and Jags just tripped over his body and they didn't call anything. Brayden Coburn asked him "why wasn't that a trip?" and the guy was like, "He was trying to go around him..." or something like that which made absolutely no sense. The Habs got a tick-tac call and Lavy even said, "If they score on this PP, it's going to be on you!" of course the Habs ended up scoring on the PP and Lavy lost it yelling "TYPICAL!! MONTREAL TYPICAL!!!" Who was that guy?

Best I've seen is Kelly Sutherland. Always calls a fair game and stays in the background.

Kerry Fraser

4:30 burrows is holding Hamhuis’s stick, that was the right call

It's gotten so bad when it comes to Refs/Umps saying a player said this or that, why don't they just put a microphone on every single official to record every encounter. That way there is an exact representation on what was actually said. Very similar to what almost every Police/Sheriff Depts now do. With all of the past "allegations" that the Officer said this or that or did this or that we now have video/audio proof of what actually went down. Sports can adopt that to protect both Players and Refs. They already "mic up" some players during games in every sport, do it for all of them already.

NHL referring has been so inconsistent for year, it will never get fixed.

that is crazy, I always knew the games were rigged

Tim Peel has entered the chat.

Paul Devorski would smirk while miming the penalty

Why do leagues tolerate such poor refs?

There was some recent games where the cancuks have had stupid calls against them the 17 goal wild game had call on elias lindholm where it was "roughing" (it was most certainly not) but other games since then have gotten some attention among fans.

Andy Van Hellemond & Bruce Hood (now that we are in the 2 ref system) but Kerry ‘the hair’ Fraser was amazing too, he hated wearing that lid! Where are all the good refs?

Why would four frenchmen refereeing a game in Montreal be any worst than four english ones!!! It's effing insulting! Auger is bad and in the HOF of bad refs along with Kerry Fraser, Tim Peele, Paul Stewart and Chris Lee. One bad call that deserves more attention is from Andy Van Hellemond in the 1994 or 1995 Quebec Nordiques vs NY Rangers playoffs. The Nordiques were in possession of the puck for long enough time and scored a goal. Van Hellemond waived the goal off and gave a penalty. My memory is fading but I think the worst thing was that the penalty was given to NY but I could be wrong. Someone who reads this and knows more can enlighten me please.

this is why you never give a frog any level of authority

Kerry Frazer. Terrible just a power tripper who used alot of hair spray .

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Chris Lee. It's nice that the NHL let's him ref with his white cane though.

I have a very long and extensive list of hated referees in the NHL ....it has been almost 30 years since the NHL has even had a "decent" ref! The NHL rule book ain't the greatest either! my opinion 🦂

Chris Lee for his ridiculous bias vs the Canadiens

I don't catch the refs name or remember their names for games. Personally though, I think the NHL needs to rework how the officiating is done. There seems to be a lot of bad refs that make some ridicules calls or no-calls throughout the season.

Now that betting is allowed on games, I treat each hockey game like wrestling....only entertainment and has a script they follow each game

And still you don't name him? Pretty cowardly!

Surprised this guy is still alive…. People have departed life for lesser an offense.

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yeah, referees should be taken off their pedistals and maybe they will call a better game. and Auger should have been arrested for fixing a game

You're probably too young to remember Vern Buffy in the early '60's. Clueless.

So in other words he was the Angel Hernandez of the NHL.