A gentleman who led by example. Learned a lot from him early in my career before he retired as a supervisor. Enjoyed seeing him at The Joe late in my career. May he rest in peace. Condolences to his family.

Very nice remembrance Dave. I used to get to Madison Square Garden (in the 1970's) 1 hour before game time just to watch the Officials skate alone in the low lamp light of the World Most Famous Arena. I remember him as boisterous as he cut up the ice, loving every moment it. RIP

Boy was he good to me Friend of my dad’s when I was a kid Gave me a bunch of NHL pucks Met him later in life Nice man Thanks Matt RIP

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@ESPNRefNHL what are we missing here?

You got it way wrong in the Watertown Wytheville suspensions. The guy who hasn't played a shift in 2 games attacks the leading scorer in the league last year and you give him a 2 game suspension. You are better than that respectfully.

Do you agree with the length of this review and others that have happened? I feel like if you can’t blatantly see evidence to overturn a call within a minute or looking at multiple replays, clearly at best it’s inconclusive. I think there should be a time limit for review.

If this is the only view they had, this review should have taken 5 seconds as you can’t even see the contact point of puck to stick. So I’m curious if they had others or if they were trying to guesstimate based on this when it should have been instantly inconclusive.

Are you watching the Avs/Bolts game? If so, how is it possible LOC is the only penalty? That's terrible @ESPNRefNHL

@ESPNRefNHL Dave Jackson still paying those referees union dues with that call on the penalty shot.

@ESPNRefNHL how is that called on Dobes in OT? Contact in his crease with a skater. Skater has no reason to enter the crease but to make that call in OT is absurd.

It was the puck entering the Montreal zone immediately preceding the penalty in OT. So penalty 10-15 seconds before that penalty call. You see Hutson wondering why it wasn’t an icing.

@ESPNRefNHL gotta be an instigator for Samuelsson there yeah?

Did you watch the non call on icing? Or can explain how it wasn’t an icing? That’s my question, I’m not looking to blame the officials. I’m looking to understand because with only 6 skaters on the ice (plus goalies) a lot less players and action to officiate.

They did. That doesn’t mean the calls in OT were correct. The icing call looks like a complete miss. The penalty on Dobes is not worthy in OT and wouldn’t have occurred if the icing was called.

@ESPNRefNHL Hey Dave, hope yiu enjoyed the race today and have a safe trip back. See you on the next broadcast!