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Different Opinions Of Ex-Ref Warren
by Paul on 10/07/09 at 03:53 PM ET
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from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
Two senior National Hockey League referees are divided on whether Dean Warren should have been fired by the league.
“I’ll be frank: he was horse shit,” said Paul Devorski, a 21-year referee who regularly works Stanley Cup Finals.
“Dean Warren is a good ref,” countered 30-year veteran Kerry Fraser, who has to a certain extent fallen out of favour with the NHL, having not been assigned a playoff game in several seasons.
Warren was fired by the NHL last year, and after an unsuccessful appeal through the NHL Officials’ Association has taken his cause to the Ontario Labour Relations Board. In hearings this week, Warren - an NHL referee from 1999-2007 - asserted that it was his involvement with the NHLOA that caused him to fall out of favour with the league.
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I saw Kerry Fraser drinkin’ a pina colada at Trader Vic’s.
His hair was perfect. Ahhhoooooooooooo
Posted by mike from austin on 10/07/09 at 05:47 PM ET
Tim Tebow, Superman and Bambale Osby all wear Kerry Fraser Wigs to bed
Posted by bsalamon on 10/07/09 at 05:58 PM ET
G Healy this morning on the radio said he never deserved a job in the 1st place.
Posted by eric on 10/07/09 at 06:45 PM ET
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Wow.
Sounds like a schism in officiating camps as to how games should be called—Devorski agrees with the league’s line of how to officiate, and guys like Warren and Fraser think they know better and want to keep calling games the way they want to call them.
But man, for one ref to call another’s work horse sh*t is…. just… yeeeaahhh, I don’t even know what to do with that.
Posted by Primis on 10/07/09 at 04:16 PM ET