Give referees the help they need and rewrite the rules
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God, I’m sick of this referee after every game.
When it is easy to solve.
Give referees the help they need and rewrite the rules.
It is such a travesty that they are not even allowed to watch the jumbotron.
Djurgårdsbacken’s Edvin Hammerlund review of Modo’s Oscar Peterson is just the latest in a string of cases that have stirred passions.
But what do judges do?
They are again as restricted as the regulations currently appear to be.
They are not even allowed to view the same images that are shown to the public on the jumbotron which clearly shows that they have misjudged the situation.
The judges are the only ones who can’t see what everyone else is seeing, which is absolutely insane when we’re writing in 2023 and crystal-clear TV images provide answers to every dubious question.
They are also not allowed to get help from the operating room in these cases, and if they blow a second on the ice, they are not even allowed into the announcer’s booth to check if they did the right thing.
The Stockholm operating room is also governed by regulations for patients.
They are also not allowed to enter and alter decisions made by the referees on the ice. No matter how wrong.
Here I sit and watch the Premier League two days, three days a week and see the referees standing quietly and waiting for a message from the VAR room whether it was a good offside or not.
or if a penalty will be awarded in a questionable case.
Then the announcement comes into the earphone, the referee blows his pipe and everyone knows it was the right decision.
Stimulation snack.
No discussion.
Above all.
No one can burden the judge.
It shows the judges’ dilemma
I struggled with Kristoffer Folkstrand after the game in Ö-vik last time, when he openly admitted he made a mistake and should have been five on Hammarlund for cross-checking instead of the two minutes he got for the high stick.
But what everyone had already seen, had to wait for the match to end.
He received no assistance whatsoever on the ice and neither teammate Daniel Wiesner nor assistant referees Fredrik Backstrom or Theodor Sørholm were informed of the situation.
It shows the judges’ dilemma, when the entire hockey nation has already witnessed everything to the smallest detail.
They are forced to trust what happened in the hundredth of a second that they catch from the corner of their eye.
When will Swedish hockey referees realize this has developed into a massive credibility problem?
And how long are they going to sit there with their arms crossed and throw the judges under the bus?
The judges take it hard enough and they must avoid exposure altogether.
When it is easy to solve.
Korkat is just a first name.