![]() Host Mario Langlois : …news about referees, Tim Peel finds himself in a dicey situation following an article on a blog, Greg Wyshinski’s blog, not sure if I pronounce his name correctly, tell us the story. Here’s reader Andre Trahan’s translation of their segment: Which is, you know, a fairly salient fact when you’re reporting someone was suspended “indefinitely.” In the sense that it could then be defined as “one game.”Īnyway, we figured we’d root out where the bad reporting originated, and it originated with Ron Fournier, a radio host who used to be a National Hockey League referee. ![]() (Well, they reported a meeting with a “fan” but that’s the least of our factual concerns.) They referenced his getting pulled from the Devils game, but not that he worked the following night. Then on Monday, 98.5 Sports in Montreal, a French-language sports radio station, reported that Peel had been “suspended indefinitely” due to our meeting. I didn’t see it necessary to poke the bear on this, out of respect to Peel and because being the center of the story you cover is never exactly high on a journalist's to-do list besides, he was working the following day. Once more, with feeling: He missed one game as a slap on the wrist but was working again 24 hours later.Ī few people took notice. He was, however, back on the ice on Saturday for the New York Rangers’ game at MSG. So the photo hit Twitter, and the story hit the blog, and the NHL pulled Peel from a scheduled gig refereeing the New Jersey Devils’ game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night. (Because, you know, Peel is the only on-ice official to have road beverages on an off-night.) It would blow up in their faces.Īs far as I can gather: They were steamed about the drinking photo moreso than anything in the story. Like I said to him at our meeting: If the NHL took any action on this, it goes from being a quirky human interest story to Big Hockey News. I hoped they wouldn’t, but I figured they could. But I knew Peel putting himself out there could have some repercussions with the NHL. To call it one of the more well-received stories we’ve done here would be an understatement, and again I thank you for that. It was an informal, on the record chat we went off the record when discussing more sensitive topics. The tequila shot image seen here was something Peel encouraged me to post online after I asked him, and he did the same when it came to a story about our meeting the following day. ![]()
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