College Hockey News is reporting that WCHA commissioner Bruce McLeod has acknowledged that league referee Randy Schmidt has been removed from his assignment for this weekend's game, and is currently on official suspension. Schmidt is the referee that disallowed Wisconsin's apparent goal against DU last week as time expired.Speculation began because Schmidt did not officiate any games last weekend, following a pair of incidents for which the WCHA sent out letters of apology for mistakes made by the officials during games Schmidt was involved in.
"He wasn't scheduled to work last week, but he was scheduled to work this week," McLeod said. "He's under a suspension right now, and now we deal with it and make a final decision on the long term. ... He was taken off this weekend's series. (read the rest of the story)
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Now if we could just get Shepherd and Anderson out of there and get somebody who can actually call a game...
jhahn4@du.edu, Shepherd is one of the best refs in the country. Unfortunately, bad calls happen and you may have been on the wrong side of one of his once or twice. Shepherd isn't going anywhere.
I think I've also seen improvements with Anderson this year as well.
I don't know...Shepherd has this tendency to alternate calls and keep penalties relatively even, so there's a lot of make-up calls that really aren't penalties. And Andersen misses a lot of penalties simply cause he's not paying attention. And his positioning is terrible. Are you sure we're talking about D. Shepherd? Cause there's more than one in the WCHA and Derek is usually here in Colorado.
If you don't want Derek, send him to Houghton. We'd be glad to have him every weekend... or at least I would. :)
You say that now... I'd like to have Adam full time. Except for one very questionable (but not game deciding) call, he officiated one of the best games all season.
Maybe I'm asking too much to see a reduction in bogus penalties (even many against opponents I can't agree with, especially in Derek Shepherd's case) and have more consistent, accurate officials in college hockey's top league?
You sure you just wouldn't want to see Schmidt all the time? :)
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