With that first step onto the ice, the ice must be broken.
Invariably, this particular hockey referee loses the advantage of anonymity from the very start, loses the benefit of the adage that officials have called a great game when you don’t notice them at all. There is a mandatory, sometimes awkward, introductory process.
“It’s a shock factor,” Jamie Huntley says. “I can feel it. Guys give you ‘the look’ in warm-ups.” – READ MORE
