Here's a video of a day in the life of an AHL ref. Lots of penalties, some goals, a teddy bear toss and a bunch of bleeped swearing. Possibly NSFW for the edited swearing. This really shows the difficulties of reffing and will make you appreciate what they do with their limited resources. It also helps personify them upon making minor mistakes, very worth the watch. It's a few years old so I'm sorry if fata.
Edit: I'm on my cell phone and can't edit the title, this has nothing to do with plenty of fish.
Pretty sure you got sureLossed by three years, but a good watch all the same. They gotta turn their back on certain plays when doing the forward-backward shift with their skates, and it really illustrates how certain calls might be missed when viewing from bird's eye.
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Yeah I figured it was too good of a video to not have been posted. Regardless I must have missed it when it originally came out, and like you said, it's a good watch. It seems situationally appropriate to re post given how much flak the refs are taking this year/playoffs.
AHL Referee First Person POF
