In ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

, an official

Official (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, an official is a person who has some responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game. There are two categories of officials, on-ice officials, who are the referees and linesmen that enforce the rules during game play, and off-ice officials, who have an...

 is responsible for enforcing the rules and maintaining order. On-ice officials are present on the ice during the game, and traditionally wear a shirt with black and white vertical stripes. The National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 (NHL) currently employs four on-ice officials in each game—two referees and two linesmen. Referees are identified by their red or orange armbands. They are responsible for the general supervision of the game, assess penalties

Penalty (ice hockey)

A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...

, and conduct face-offs at the beginning of each period and after a goal is scored. When play is stopped for another reason, the face-offs are conducted by the linesmen. The linesmen are primarily responsible for violations involving the centre line and blue lines, such as icing

Icing (ice hockey)

Icing in ice hockey occurs when a player shoots the puck across at least two red lines, the opposing team's goal line being the last, and the puck remains untouched. It is, however, not icing if the puck is shot from behind the halfway line into the goal, or when the shot must be played by the...

 and offside

Offside (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, the current play is offside if a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone, either carried by a teammate or sent into the attacking zone by an attacking player. If a defending player carries, passes, or otherwise intentionally sends...

 infractions.

Current referees

• Stéphane Auger
  Stéphane Auger
  Stéphane Auger is a National Hockey League referee who wears uniform number 15. Auger began his career as an official at the age of 16 as a part time job in the winter. He began officiating provincial midget hockey and moved up to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League before turning to the...
  
   #15
• David Banfield
  David Banfield
  David Banfield is an NHL/AHL referee who wears uniform #44. Banfield began his NHL refereeing career on March 17, 2008 with the Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild game. A member of the NHL Officials' Association since September 1, 2007, Banfield has refereed 18 games at the NHL level as of...
  
   #44
• Chris Ciamaga
  Chris Ciamaga
  Chris Ciamaga is an NHL/AHL referee who wore uniform #41 in the NHL. He was born September 13, 1977 in Buffalo, NY. Ciamaga began his NHL refereeing career on March 22, 2008 with the New Jersey Devils at Pittsburgh Penguins game...
  
   #41
• Paul Devorski
  Paul Devorski
  Paul Devorski is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 10 since the 1994–95 NHL season. He refereed his first NHL game on October 14, 1989, and has been wearing a helmet while refereeing NHL games since the 2005–06 NHL season...
  
   #10
• Gord Dwyer #19
• Eric Furlatt
  Eric Furlatt
  Eric Furlatt is an NHL referee who wears uniform #27. He was born December 2, 1971 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Furlatt began his NHL refereeing career on December 8, 2001 at the Philadelphia Flyers at Columbus Blue Jackets game...
  
   #27
• Mike Hasenfratz
  Mike Hasenfratz
  Mike Hasenfratz is a National Hockey League referee since the 2000–01 NHL season, he wore uniform number 30. However, since the beginning of the 2011–12 NHL season Mike now wears uniform number 2 , His birthday is a day before fellow Regina native and former NHL referee Mick McGeough.-References:...
  
   #2
• Ghislain Hebert #49
• Jean Hebert  #43
• Dave Jackson #8
• Marc Joannette
  Marc Joannette
  Marc Joannette is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 25. As of the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, he has officiated 470 regular season and 28 playoff games. His first game was on October 1, 1999...
  
   #25
• Greg Kimmerly
  Greg Kimmerly
  Greg Kimmerly is a National Hockey League referee since the 1993-94 NHL season, Greg now wears the number 18. He officiated on December 22, 2009 when Martin Brodeur broke Terry Sawchuk's career shutout record with his 104th shutout.Greg Kimmerly was chosen as one of the officials to ref the 2006...
  
   #18
• Tom Kowal
  Tom Kowal
  Tom Kowal , is a National Hockey League referee since the 1999–2000 NHL season, who wears uniform number 32. He is noted for his inconsistency in two games regarding the verification of scored goals...
  
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• Steve Kozari #40
• Dennis LaRue
  Dennis LaRue
  Dennis LaRue is a National Hockey League referee since the 1990–91 NHL season, who wears uniform number 14 since the 1994–95 NHL season. He was selected to officiate the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. In December 2009 he was selected as one of 13 referees to officiate at the 2010 Winter Olympics in...
  
   #14
• Frederick L'Écuyer #17
• Chris Lee
  Chris Lee (referee)
  Chris Lee is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 28. He refereed his first game in the NHL on April 2, 2001 and had refereed a total of 444 games entering the 2009-2010 season but only four playoff games.-References:...
  
   #28
• Mike Leggo
  Mike Leggo
  Mike Leggo is a National Hockey League referee since the 1996–97 NHL season, who wears uniform number 3.-References:...
  
   #3
• Rob Martell #26
• Wes McCauley
  Wes McCauley
  Wes McCauley is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 4. He is the son of the late John McCauley, a former NHL referee.-See Also:...
  
   #4
• Bill McCreary
  Bill McCreary (referee)
  William "Bill" McCreary is a former referee in the National Hockey League.McCreary refereed his first NHL game in 1984 in Washington, D.C.. On February 16, 2008, McCreary refereed his 1,500th NHL game in a match between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins...
  
   #7
• Brad Meier
  Brad Meier
  Brad Meier is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 34. The first NHL game that Meier acted as an official in was during the 1999–2000 NHL season...
  
   #34
• Dean Morton
  Dean Morton
  Dean Morton is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and is currently a National Hockey League referee. He played in one NHL game for the Detroit Red Wings during the 1989–90 NHL season and is one of only three players to score a goal in their only NHL game, along with Brad Fast and...
  
   #36
• Dan O'Halloran
  Dan O'Halloran
  Dan O'Halloran is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 13. He was one of the selected referees who officiated the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals with Paul Devorski...
  
   #13
• Dan O'Rourke
  Dan O'Rourke
  Dan O'Rourke is an NHL referee, who wears uniform number 9. He was one of the selected referees who officiated during the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs...
  
   #9
• Tim Peel #20
• Brian Pochmara #16
• Kevin Pollock
  Kevin Pollock
  Kevin Pollock is a National Hockey League referee since the 1999–2000 NHL season, who wears uniform number 33.-References:...
  
   #33
• Kyle Rehman #37
• Chris Rooney
  Chris Rooney
  Chris Rooney is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 5. His first NHL regular season game was Tampa Bay Lightning Vs Atlanta Thrashers on the 22nd November 2000. He also worked the 2010 NHL Winter Classic with Kerry Fraser at Fenway Park between Boston Bruins and Philadelphia...
  
   #5
• François St. Laurent #38
• Justin St. Pierre #12
• Kelly Sutherland
  Kelly Sutherland
  Kelly Sutherland is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 11. He was one of the selected referees who officiated the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals along with Bill McCreary, Dan O'Halloran and Stephen Walkom. He was selected again to officiate the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.-References:...
  
   #11
• Don Van Massenhoven
  Don Van Massenhoven
  Don VanMassenhoven is a National Hockey League referee since the 1993–94 NHL season, who wears uniform number 21.Before he became an NHL referee, VanMassenhoven was a police officer...
  
   #21
• Marcus Vinnerborg
  Marcus Vinnerborg
  Karl Johan Marcus Vinnerborg is a Swedish professional ice hockey referee. He currently works in North America for the National Hockey League and American Hockey League.-Officiating career:...
  
   #45
• Stephen Walkom
  Stephen Walkom
  Stephen Walkom , is a professional National Hockey League referee and formerly served as vice president and director of officiating for the National Hockey League ....
  
   #24
• Ian Walsh
  Ian Walsh (referee)
  Ian Walsh is a National Hockey League referee since the 2000–01 NHL season, who wears uniform number 29. Walsh started officiating ice hockey in the Philadelphia area at age 15...
  
   #29
• Brad Watson #23

Current linesmen

• Derek Amell #75
• Steve Barton #59
• David Brisebois #96
• Lonnie Cameron #74
• Pierre Champoux
  Pierre Champoux
  Pierre Champoux is a National Hockey League linesman, who wears uniform number 67.-References:...
  
   #67
• Scott Cherrey #50
• Michel Cormier
  Michel Cormier (linesman)
  Michel Cormier is a National Hockey League linesman, who wears uniform number 76. On December 22, 2009 he officiated when Martin Brodeur broke Terry Sawchuk's career shutout record with his 104th shutout....
  
   #76
• Mike Cvik #88
• Greg Devorski
  Greg Devorski
  Greg Devorski is a National Hockey League linesman since the 1993–94 NHL season, who wears uniform number 54 since the 1994–95 NHL season. He is the younger brother of NHL referee Paul Devorski.-References:...
  
   #54
• Scott Driscoll
  Scott Driscoll (linesman)
  Scott Driscoll is a National Hockey League linesman, who wears uniform number 68.-References:...
  
   #68
• Ryan Galloway #82
• Darren Gibbs #66
• Don Henderson #91
• Shane Heyer
  Shane Heyer
  Shane Heyer is a National Hockey League linesman, who wears uniform number 55.-References:...
  
   #55
• Brad Kovachik #71
• Brad Lazarowich #86
• Ryan Loverick #48
• Brian Mach #78
• Andy McElman #90
• Steve Miller #89
• Jean Morin #97
• Brian Murphy #93
• Jonny Murray #95
• Derek Nansen #70
• Thor Nelson #80
• Tim Nowak #77
• Brian Pancich #94
• Pierre Racicot
  Pierre Racicot
  Pierre Racicot is a National Hockey League linesman, who wears uniform number 65. He officiated on April 6, 2007 when Martin Brodeur broke Bernie Parent's single season wins record with his 48th win.-References:...
  
   #65
• Vaughan Rody #73
• Dan Schachte #47
• Lyle Seitz #61
• Anthony Sericolo #84
• Jay Sharrers
  Jay Sharrers
  Jay Sharrers is an ice hockey linesman in the National Hockey League , who wears uniform number 57. As of March 2010, Sharrers had officiated 1064 regular season games and 127 playoff games....
  
   #57
• Mark Shewchyk #92
• Mark Wheler #56

Former NHL officials

• Neil Armstrong
  Neil Armstrong (ice hockey)
  Neil P. Armstrong is a former professional ice hockey linesman, and is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.- Career :...
  
   
• John Ashley
  John Ashley (ice hockey)
  John George Ashley was a referee in the National Hockey League. He was born in Galt, Ontario.John started his officiating career in 1959. From 1964 to 1972, John officiated every Game Seven in the Stanley Cup playoffs, a testament to his legacy. John was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981...
  
   
• Ron Asselstine
  Ron Asselstine
  Ron Asselstine is a retired National Hockey League linesman.Born in Toronto and raised in Guelph, Ontario, Asselstine's NHL officiating career started in 1979 and ended in 1997. During his career , he officiated 1,364 regular season games and three All-Star games...
  
   
• Bob Best 
• Wayne Bonney
  Wayne Bonney
  Wayne Bonney is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1979 and ended in 2003. During his career , he officiated five Stanley Cup finals and one All-Star game.-External links:*...
  
   
• Ryan Bozak
  Ryan Bozak
  Ryan Bozak is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1972 and ended in 1994. During his career, he officiated 1,528 regular season games and two All-Star games.-References:...
  
   
• Gord Broseker
  Gord Broseker
  Gord Broseker is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1973 and ended in 2002. During his career, he officiated five Stanley Cup finals, 1,863 regular season games, and two All-Star games....
  
   
• Bill Chadwick
  Bill Chadwick
  William Leroy "The Big Whistle" Chadwick was the first US-born referee to serve in the National Hockey League...
  
   (linesman and referee)
• Kevin Collins
  Kevin Collins (ice hockey)
  Kevin Collins is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1977 and ended in 2005. During his career , he officiated ten Stanley Cup Finals and one All-Star game.-External links:**...
  
   
• John D'Amico
  John D'Amico
  John David D'Amico was a National Hockey League linesman and later supervisor of officials.A native of Toronto, D'Amico's NHL career started as a referee on October 12, 1964, when he was 27 years old...
  
   
• Pat Dapuzzo
  Pat Dapuzzo
  Pat Dapuzzo is a retired National Hockey League linesman, who wore uniform number 60. He officiated in the NHL from 1985–2008 Dapuzzo grew up in North Bergen, New Jersey, where he went to Franklin Elementary School and attended St. Bridget's Church...
  
   
• Chaucer Elliott
  Chaucer Elliott
  Edwin S. "Chaucer" Elliott was a Canadian sportsman and a Hall of Fame referee and linesman. He is the grandfather of Bob Elliott , one of Canada's most respected sports writers....
  
   
• Mark Faucette
  Mark Faucette
  Mark Faucette was a National Hockey League referee. He refereed NHL games on a regular basis from the 1987–88 NHL season until he was fired following the 2002–03 NHL season...
  
   
• Ron Finn
  Ron Finn
  Ron Finn is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1969 and ended in 1996. During his career, he officiated 1,980 regular season games and two All-Star games as well as Rendez-vous '87....
  
   
• Ron Fournier
  Ron Fournier (radio personality)
  Ronald "Ron" Fournier is a Quebec-born radio host and sport journalist. He is also a retired professional hockey referee.-Early life:...
  
   
• Kerry Fraser
  Kerry Fraser
  Kerry Fraser is a hockey analyst and former senior referee in the National Hockey League, having joined the National Hockey League Officials Association on September 1, 1973, and officiating his first game in the 1980–81 season. Fraser's father, Hilton "Hilt" Fraser, had him skating at 15 months...
  
   
• Gerard Gauthier
  Gerard Gauthier
  Gerard Gauthier is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1971 and ended in 2003. During his career, he officiated 2,345 regular season games and six Stanley Cup finals.-Further reading:...
  
   
• Terry Gregson
  Terry Gregson
  Terry Gregson , nicknamed "The Head Zebra", is the current National Hockey League Director of Officiating. He was formerly a referee in the NHL from 1981 until 2004. He wore a helmet from the mid-1980s until the end of his refereeing career...
  
   
• Wally Harris
  Wally Harris (referee)
  Wally Harris was a National Hockey League referee. He joined the NHL's officiating staff in 1966, and he retired as referee 17 years later. In 1987, he became an NHL Supervisor of Officials until he retired in 2002....
  
   
• George Hayes
  George Hayes (ice hockey)
  George Hayes was a linesman in the National Hockey League.Hayes started officiating in the NHL in 1946. He was the first official to work 1,000 games. He was also a part of a European tour with the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins in 1959...
  
   
• Bobby Hewitson
  Bobby Hewitson
  Bobby Hewitson was the first curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a referee in the National Hockey League from 1920 to 1934. In 1963, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame for his service to ice hockey.-External links:...
  
   
• Bob Hodges
  Bob Hodges
  Bob Hodges is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1972 and ended in 1997. During his career, he had officiated three Stanley Cup finals, 1,701 regular season games, and three All-Star games.-References:...
  
   
• Ron Hoggarth
  Ron Hoggarth
  Ron Hoggarth is a retired National Hockey League referee. His career started in 1971 and ended in 1994. During his career, he had officiated 139 Stanley Cup playoff games and three All-Star games.-External links:*...
  
   
• Bruce Hood 
• Mickey Ion
  Mickey Ion
  Fred J. Ion was a professional ice hockey referee and Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame....
  
   
• Swede Knox
  Swede Knox
  Swede Knox is a former NHL linesman who graduated from Athabasca University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Administration degree...
  
   
• Don Koharski
  Don Koharski
  Don Koharski is a retired professional ice hockey referee in the National Hockey League. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, together with whom he has two sons...
  
   
• Bryan Lewis
  Bryan Lewis
  Bryan Lewis is a Canadian municipal politician and a former referee and Director of Officiating for the National Hockey League. His first NHL experience was in the 1966–67 NHL season. He worked more than 1000 games at the NHL level, and was named Director of Officiating in 1989, following the...
  
   
• Dan Marouelli
  Dan Marouelli
  Dan Marouelli is an ex-National Hockey League referee, who wore uniform number 6 since the 1994–95 NHL season....
  
   
• John McCauley 
• Mick McGeough
  Mick McGeough
  Mick McGeough was a National Hockey League referee, who wore uniform number 19 from the 1994–95 NHL season until his retirement. His NHL career began in 1987. McGeough was one of the last NHL officials to officiate NHL games without wearing a helmet when he was on the ice...
  
   
• Randy Mitton
  Randy Mitton
  Randy Mitton is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1973 and ended in 2004. During his career, he officiated one Stanley Cup final, 2,109 regular season games, and two All-Star games.-References:...
  
   
• Denis Morel
  Denis Morel
  Denis Morel is a retired National Hockey League referee. His career started in 1974 and ended in 1994. During his career , he officiated two Stanley Cup finals.On May 31, 2010, he was fired as Quebec-based amateur scout for the Montreal Canadiens.-External links:**...
  
   
• Mark Paré
  Mark Paré
  Mark Paré is a retired Canadian National Hockey League linesman, who wore uniform number 79. He retired from the NHL after the April 11, 2010 game between the Detroit Red Wings versus the Chicago Blackhawks....
  
   
• Matt Pavelich
  Matt Pavelich
  Matt Pavelich is a Canadian ice-hockey linesman.-Early career:He began officiating when he was fourteen, working minor hockey games in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
  
   
• Stephane Provost
  Stephane Provost
  Stéphane Provost was a French Canadian National Hockey League linesman....
  
   (linesman)
• Mike Rodden
  Mike Rodden
  Michael James Rodden was a Canadian sports journalist, National Hockey League referee, and Canadian football coach, and was the first person elected to both the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame .Born in Mattawa, Ontario, Rodden officiated in 1,187 National Hockey League...
  
   
• Ray Scapinello
  Ray Scapinello
  Raymond Angelo Joseph "Scampy" Scapinello is a former National Hockey League linesman, known for having the longest on-ice career of anyone in the history of the NHL.-Early life:...
  
   
• Rob Shick
  Rob Shick
  The former referee Rob Shick was a National Hockey League referee beginning with the 1985–86 NHL season. He retired in March of 2009. He wore uniform number 16 since the 1994–95 NHL season. He has been wearing a helmet while refereeing NHL games since the mid-1990s.Shick refereed his final game...
  
   
• Craig Spada 
• Cooper Smeaton
  Cooper Smeaton
  J. Cooper Smeaton was a Canadian professional ice hockey referee and head coach.Smeaton was born in Carleton Place, Ontario. In his first game in 1913, between the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers of the National Hockey Association, he was confronted by Newsy Lalonde after calling an...
  
   
• Paul Stewart
  Paul Stewart (ice hockey)
  Paul Stewart is a former professional ice hockey player and referee.Stewart played in both the World Hockey Association and the National Hockey League. He played with Mark Messier for the Cincinnati Stingers...
  
   
• Leon Stickle
  Leon Stickle
  Leon Stickle is a retired National Hockey League linesman. His career started in 1969 and ended in 1997. During his career , he officiated six Stanley Cup finals, 1,987 regular season games, and four All-Star games...
  
   
• Red Storey
  Red Storey
  Roy Alvin "Red" Storey, CM was a Canadian football player and National Hockey League referee.-Early life and career:...
  
   
• Frank Udvari
  Frank Udvari
  Frank Joseph Udvari in Yugoslavia was a NHL referee during the 1950s and 60s. He was the presiding referee during the game which initially sparked the Richard Riot. He was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1973.-External links:*...
  
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• Andy Van Hellemond
  Andy Van Hellemond
  Andy Van Hellemond is a former National Hockey League referee and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1999....
  
   
• Ron Wicks
  Ron Wicks
  Ronald Wicks is a retired National Hockey League referee. His career started in 1960 and ended in 1986. During his career, he officiated five Stanley Cup finals and 1,400 regular season games.-External links:*...
  
   

Officials in the Hockey Hall of Fame

Hockey Hall of Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup...

 

Year inducted	Name	Nationality
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1961
1961
1962
1963
1964
1967
1973		/
1981
1987
1988
1991
1993
1999
2008

External links

NHL On-Ice Officials 2009-2010 National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...