If you don't like the way that D6 officiates do something about it. Become a member and get elected to the board. Though good changes are coming with the D6 officials as there was a new president and 2 new board members the where elected removing some of the "good ol' boys" from power. This will hopfully bring with it some great changes to the district.whockeyguy wrote:Dear quacker tracker, ive been to probably 20 or more clinics and the worst one i ever attended was held by D-6 , they have to be the most self serving bunch of officails in the state, not to say conceited, all they could talk about is how D-6 is the best officiating around and you have to be someone special to break the ice there, well, sorry i dont have time that BS for a bunch of clowns that are no better than me,
Oh its nice to hear the rate wont go up , ya this year, and then your report goes in and syay how great this system is, and were all saddled with later,
Dont tell me it wont happen because ive seen it wit the 3 man system, this started very similar.
My god its youth hockey , your telling two or three grown adults covering half the ice cant keep up with 14-15 year olds , well if thats the case then get off the ice before you get run over and let someone that can keep up do it.
The 4 ref system is a joke , and there is NO reason to even try it at YOUTH Hockey
The 4 man system is probably not needed in most Bantam level game however USA Hockey is the one looking at it and I think it would be used for National Tournamens (of course none our teams will see one but that's a whole other debate) which I think there very much could be a need for a 4th man on the ice as the speed of the game has changed greatly over the last 20 years.
Of course we only want guys that are in shape on the ice that can outskate the 14 year olds but the issue is that there are just not enough of those guys to be on the ice every night with the amount of games that there are. There are not always better options then a fat guy (ME) to chase the kids up and down!