gary69
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Marconius said:Why drag the amount NHL refs make into the question? It's almost as if you seem to be muddying up the waters on purpose because you have no real point. What the refs make is not really related to anything. The point is that they refuse to take other jobs out of solidarity.
It matters what referees make (made), if they were starving they would be fighting for whatever paying (referee's) job they could get. And since a lot of referees in European leagues' are part-timer referees (for example teachers in real life) with a nominal fee+expenses paid, there's no demand for NHL-refs over there. So it's easy to present yourself as noble, when there's no great demand for a person's services. And not that NHL refs are consired so much better in Europe, that it's worth the money wasted on them. So it could be argued that they are way more overpaid (thanks to thet 90's strike) than the players, regarding what value they bring to the game (as compared for their possible and eventual successors).
As for NHL referees' standards, I would argue that no ref who hasn't sentenced at least 30 mins obstruction, hooking etc. penalties a game for the past 10 years (or whatever years he's been in the laegue) hasn't done he's job, and has is in his part responsible for bringing down the playing level to is current poor standard.
Perhaps allowing/forcing the refs to be financially more independent from the NHL (part-time, limiting max NHL referiing years to 5 years or so), perhaps they would make care more about the game than their own/families' NHL-dependant financial well-being. In every 5 years enough new refs would come around to be new NHL-standard refs.
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