Why the ECHL over AHL?

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Fans will never be satisfied with the officiating, no matter how many or how few officials are wearing stripes every night nor how many of them make "the right calls." Meanwhile I'm anticipating NHL & AHL expansion requiring more on-ice officials, which will require the ECHL & SPHL to employ more refs (and linesmen) to be ready to fill the openings. The ECHL deploying two referees to at least some of their games seems to me like a natural progression to getting the crews used to working conditions at the higher levels. And then there's always The Peter Principle coming into play.

Linesmen are easy to get, it's qualified referees that are the problem. Right now there's maybe five of those in the ECHL. The rest are flat out terrible. There's no way the ECHL is going to a two referee system anytime soon.