Capz
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Yea i work with a union and I wont say which one. It's nearly impossible to get someone fired for better or worse
News Article: Petition to fire Chris Lee
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Yea i work with a union and I wont say which one. It's nearly impossible to get someone fired for better or worse
habsfan891
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Spearmint Rhino
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There is also a chance.........an outside chance, that maybe the guy will learn from all this? The zebras are not held accountable near enough....that whole we will take care of it internally by the league is crap...
Bourne Endeavor
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How about firing a man incompetent at his job who let someone punch someone else? There will come a point where refs "managing" the game like this leads to a potentially career ending injury as players keep taking more and more liberties with what they can get away with.
Alas, change.org petitions mean nothing.
Schooner Guy
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Do you have a link you can send me? I have no idea what this Chicago situation is.
Habs Halifax
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Set this aside guys. Hockey gods are watching and lets stay focused on the game. Let others focus on Lee
Cole Caulifield
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Yesterday Chris Lee stood by while Kucherov got an absolutely vicious and gratuitous cross check that took him out of the entire game. Bush league stuff. Pathetic that Chris Lee is one of the refs chosen to referee games in the semis. We better not see this hack in the finals regardless of if we make it there or not. What a joke. But then again, Chris Lee is only a symptom of a much larger disease called Campbell and Bettman. And this situation won't get resolved with a fan petition, but only if medias and major betting companies like bet99 start putting pressure on the league to clean up their act.
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I think he is incompetent and shows bias and I hope the NHL figures it out. A petition in this scenario is comical.
He's saying we may hear Lee say some stupid shit like "I'm managing the game" or "I wanted to give that guy/team a penalty since the 5 minute mark".
Like what happened to Peel.
Side note, I'll be Tampa are punching air right now.
Roadhouse
Bring me back to 2006...
I agree with the overall sentiment of your post, but I'm not sure why you're bringing bet99 into this...?
They saturated us with commercials, I can't take 'em no more.
Cole Caulifield
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I agree with the overall sentiment of your post, but I'm not sure why you're bringing bet99 into this...?
They saturated us with commercials, I can't take 'em no more.
I am not an expert on this, but betting companies can be sued if it looks like the reffing is biased, not up to par. And Bettman covets the money from bet99 and the NHL's association with these type of companies. That's why they have some sort of incentive for the sport to be, at least in appearance, fair.
Not a fan of the endless commercials either.
Sterling Archer
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I rarely advocate for someone to lose their job unless it's a case of extreme incompetency to the detriment of others or a case of extreme ego taking over the functioning of a persons ability to do their job. In either case or any other scenario, if the person is not capable of doing their job and it's hurting others, then outside of retraining and trying to get them back in line, you have to let them go. Keeping only diminishes the credibility of the organization who employs them and takes away from the other employees who are good at their job and puts them in the same basket which causes even more discord within.
By whatever metric you use, Chriss Lee should not be an NHL referee as he's shown he's wholly incompetent for several years and in several different scenarios. He's got to go of the NHL hopes to maintain any semblance of integrity which has already been called into question multiple times and now has a reputation for being a bush league with the worst officiating of any other major sport.
By whatever metric you use, Chriss Lee should not be an NHL referee as he's shown he's wholly incompetent for several years and in several different scenarios. He's got to go of the NHL hopes to maintain any semblance of integrity which has already been called into question multiple times and now has a reputation for being a bush league with the worst officiating of any other major sport.
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This is the thing I can't wrap my head around. Why is he reffing any games right now? He can't possibly be considered one of the top 6 and even if, for some strange reason, he was ranked one of the best before the playoffs surely they can re-evaluate and make changes on the fly.
The petition could be made simpler, Just ask to have him excluded from officiating any more games this season. That would appease everyone for now.
SOLR
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I guess players feel differently...
"Other referees who received best ref votes included Justin St. Pierre, Francis Charron, Jake Brenk, Kyle Rehman, TJ Luxmore, Chris Lee, Dean Morton, Chris Rooney, Trevor Hamilton (presumably, Trevor Hanson, though you’d think if he’s your pick for top ref, you might know his name), Pierre Racicot (who’s a terrific linesman… but not a referee), Jon McIsaac, and Jean Hebert."
NHL Players Name Best Ref, Worst Ref in Athletic Survey
"Other referees who received best ref votes included Justin St. Pierre, Francis Charron, Jake Brenk, Kyle Rehman, TJ Luxmore, Chris Lee, Dean Morton, Chris Rooney, Trevor Hamilton (presumably, Trevor Hanson, though you’d think if he’s your pick for top ref, you might know his name), Pierre Racicot (who’s a terrific linesman… but not a referee), Jon McIsaac, and Jean Hebert."
NHL Players Name Best Ref, Worst Ref in Athletic Survey
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This is a professional sport at the highest level. Players, coaches and front office personnel are fired for performing below expectations. Why shouldn't that be the case with the officials?
