Paul Stewart: Officiating Success: Five Keys for Refs, Five Keys for Linesmen

Paul, I just want to let you know that I love your blogs. I do have a question though. Do refs ever look at replays and say(to themselves of course) "boy I messed up on that call"? I've seen may calls that were looked like the correct call at game speed then in slowmotion you can see it wasn't correct, and vice versa.
I realize the speed of the game and how its impossible to call a perfect game.

Paul, I just want to let you know that I love your blogs. I do have a question though. Do refs ever look at replays and say(to themselves of course) "boy I messed up on that call"? I've seen may calls that were looked like the correct call at game speed then in slowmotion you can see it wasn't correct, and vice versa.
I realize the speed of the game and how its impossible to call a perfect game.
- JohnB32

Absolutely.... officials should always be self-critiquing.

Paul,

Just like a player has to shake off a " bad " play, I understand that officials have to do the same with a " bad " call. I can imagine that it's difficult when you have 20k in the house reminding you how " poorly " you did. I am amazed at how well officials seem to be able to isolate themselves from the crowd around them. I would love to see a blog ( and I am a new reader so forgive me if I have missed this ) where you describe how you guys keep yourselves and your judgement isolated from the screaming masses.

Thank you for your insightful articles!

Paul,

Just like a player has to shake off a " bad " play, I understand that officials have to do the same with a " bad " call. I can imagine that it's difficult when you have 20k in the house reminding you how " poorly " you did. I am amazed at how well officials seem to be able to isolate themselves from the crowd around them. I would love to see a blog ( and I am a new reader so forgive me if I have missed this ) where you describe how you guys keep yourselves and your judgement isolated from the screaming masses.

Thank you for your insightful articles!
- DBSJ213

Officiating Without Fear: http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=55977

It must be tough to be impartial at times. I would be a wiener to the Avery's of the league.

As a high school, amateur, and club college ref I can say for sure you keep an extra eye on the Avery's, at least I do, that doesn't mean I am going to make something up to hurt them or their team, but you certainly keep a closer eye. Sometimes the kid or kids will say you just look for me out there don't you, and a good response is yes, and you have done it to yourself by being an idiot everytime you are on the ice...pros I would like to think learn or at least are a little smarter, once again Avery has proven that wrong hahaha