A Referee's Life by Ron Wicks

Author:Ron Wicks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BISAC, BISAC: BIO016000 / SPO020000 / BIOGRAPH & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION/Hockey
Publisher: General Store Publishing House
Published: 2012-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Boston’s Terry O’Reilly slugging referee Andy Van Hellemond.

UPI photo

Another very nasty incident took place during an October 30, 1983 game in Chicago, when Linesman Ron Foyt ordered Black Hawks player Tom Lysiak out of a face-off circle for failing to line up properly — not an unusual event. As the puck was finally being dropped, Lysiak skated around behind Foyt and flipped (or slew-footed) Foyt’s feet out from under him.

Referee Dave Newell had two options in addition to the automatic disqualification. The new rule in the book since 1982 called for suspensions of either three games or twenty games. Based on the severity of the incident, Newell imposed a twenty-game suspension. The twenty-game suspension was eventually confirmed, but not until completion of a touchy legal hassle over the severity of the penalty and the lack of the right for Lysiak to appeal.21

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