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Originally Posted by Monahammer
It's serious. #### on ice refs thinking they are part of the flow of the game. They are not. It's time to get them off the ice and into a serious impartial role.
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I think MAYBE you can get away with refs being in a press box and making calls. But even still, how are you going to break up major scrums?
You absolutely need linesmen on the ice at all times. Who will retrieve pucks after icings? If they are constantly in the penalty box and zipping in and out, it adds several seconds to each stoppage, thereby slowing the game down. They should have the help of technology to call goals and offsides, but I ultimately think it should still be a human making the decisions. Remember when Skynet started making decisions for us?