What happens if the Referees don't show up?

One of the NHL's weirdest rules is what happens if the referees don't show up to the game they are scheduled to officiate. In this video, we'll go over the backstory of the teams and players involved, why the officials couldn't make it to the game, as well as, teaching you about one of the weirdest periods to ever happen on ice.

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[Czestoamas_Official]

I watched a hockey game, not a professional one, but they started the game without the refs and they restarted it once the refs got there

[Tubewings]

This was mentioned on Secret Base as well, where they revealed that Mickey Volcan actually called a faceoff violation on one of his teammates.

[LeClaw]

slight correction. The refs only drop the puck for the opening faceoff of each period now. One of the lino's do every other one

[brendonneely]

1:00 - The linesmen actually conduct the majority of the faceoffs. The referee does at least the first faceoff of every game. Depending on the level of hockey, they may do additional faceoffs as well, such as the first faceoff of every period and/or the first faceoff after each goal is scored, but all other faceoffs are always done by linesmen.

[joshgerstein]

So fun fact, John McMullan the dude u were talking about 4:24 sold his naval architecture firm JJMA to my grandpa who was the president and ceo until he sold it again to a larger company in 2010

[ianbui]

I was at a college hockey game once where the ref (only one ref each game at the time) got an errant slash to the face from a check right next to him. Fortunately there was only a couple of minutes left in a 4-0 game, so the game was finished with just the linesmen. It wasn't long after that when the conference "promoted" all the linesmen to assistant referees because of that plus a few controversial calls and non-calls occuring elsewhere, though that new title eventually went away when the NCAA decided to switch to the 2-ref system.

[AureliusR]

I think you missed another game where this happened. If I recall correctly, it was due to the whole "eat another donut" incident, and the officials refused to continue the game, so they ended up with players officiating? Or maybe I'm mixing up two games. In either case, I remember seeing footage of guys in plain yellow jerseys warming up, and then doing a really crap job because they were nervous, made a bunch of errors like not getting out of the way of the play very well, etc. But like this incident I don't think it lasted long.

[maalbaki]

Ur vids are always great man! Keep it up

[Ninjollie]

0:34 every professional level hockey game is but games that aren’t professional (like 16U games) generally have 2 officials and both of them are linesmen and refs (there can sometimes be one on rare occasions)

[NikkiJustineTTV]

W commentary and story. Love this vid style, keep it up!

[ClawedFangYT]

Goalie here, my last game (9 days ago) we didn’t have a ref. but we still played, it was really fun cause sometimes the ones controlling the score didn’t add it. Lucky us :)

[higgy]

Great use of Brass Bonanza at the end.

[beddoftheweek]

Your videos are great this video is very well made!

[KayTupRL]

Those Colorado Rockies sweaters were incredible though- all time drip

[ronodowd]

Lanny McDonald played for the Rockies Don Cherry coached them and Walt Poddubny my first NHL game against the Leafs early 80s

[IanNason-qnyw]

9:13
Ah, yes, Mrs. Adventure Claus 🤶!!!

[watere]

My team waited like 25 minutes then did a scrimmage with coaches as refs

[ImNotGam]

Youth + Adult + College ref here.

Yeah pretty much. The game must go on and that rule is basically the same in most leagues. I've never seen it happen in 9ish years and I hope i never do, but it's always a possibility.

[GolfLegends]

Btw, the refs do not drop the puck for face offs. The only time they drop the puck is at center ice after the goals

[mediumdoubledouble]

We did this every practice. It’s called shinny. Or a “scrimmage”. We would solve penalties by loss of possession or a faceoff but there was still fights and on ice vengeance. Not a real game unless there is some kid of mutual officiating.