If that is the case, it seems like he was in the right…kind of. The call could have also come from Peel because he was letting Nashville know that he will be calling a tight game when it comes to trips and other similar calls. It is possible than Erne believed Arvidsson had the puck after the sequence but still laid him out with a check. The offending player, #73 Adam Erne gave Arvidsson a hard check after a give-and-go along the boards with #64 Mikael Granlund of Nashville. Perhaps Peel and the other officials conversed over the intermission about whether it should have been called. With about six minutes left in the first period, the officials called Detroit for an interference penalty. There is some speculation about the circumstances of the remark from Peel. With more than half the season completed, his retirement has arrived earlier than anticipated.Īn interesting thing to note from the press release is that “there is no justification for his comments, no matter the context, or his intention.” Fans and other players outside the Predators’ bench are unaware of any surrounding context that might have birthed this whole situation. Peel, coincidentally, was going to retire at the culmination of the current season. Honestly, I doubt he will have any other future involvement with hockey at any level apart from just being a fan. It is also equally likely that he will never officiate another hockey game outside of the NHL. In the statement, Campbell made it very clear that Peel will not be officiating another NHL contest ever again. The NHL released an official statement on the situation. Peel was subsequently fired for his conduct “in direct contradiction” of the NHL’s goal to promote and protect the integrity of the game. The NHL Senior Executive Vice President, Colin Campbell, has since called out and admonished Peel for this transgression. The audio was picked up on a live broadcast soon after, which caught Peel talking to the Nashville bench. Less than five minutes into the second period, former NHL referee, Tim Peel, called a penalty against Nashville’s #33 Viktor Arvidsson. The incident took place in a contest between the Nashville Predators and Detroit Red Wings on March 23. An NHL official was caught on a hot mic saying, “It wasn’t much, but I wanted to get a ****ing penalty against Nashville early” as the game went to a commercial break. This week in the NHL, the unthinkable happened.
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