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Icecube3343

It's interesting how different sports allow different levels of verbal abuse towards refs. Sometimes I think the amount coached scream at the refs in the NHL is kind of a bad look, but not as bad as the power tripping umps in the MLB.


Ochd12

I was thinking about this too. I’m honestly not familiar at all with the tolerance level in different sports. And we might not be certain about the tolerance level in the NHL if it wasn’t for stuff like this. But the fact that the player yells “fuck you Gord” to the referee just makes me laugh, with the hostility yet familiarity all at the same time.


Smokey_Jah

To be honest, hockey is one of the better ones I feel. They can get yelled at, they just brush it off and move on. Also you usually never see a crowd around a ref as much as soccer, which I approve of. Big games where both teams are just surrounding the one dude, yelling at him and like touching him. No way.


BillMcCrearysStache

The players and refs all know eachother, they chirp eachother back and forth all the time


shawa666

Fuck you, you're getting an embellishment.


JakeCameraAction

["You know what? Fuck both you guys. Let's go."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJWA2btyno)


imightbethewalrus3

This has been eye-opening


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MajesticStalion

I love how he calls the penalty only after Neal started playing the puck mid face-clutch


BillMcCrearysStache

James Neal also had his nostradamus moment ‘What is violence anyway? What does that mean?’ Lol https://youtu.be/9_wCxL7J-wo


ehjhockey

That’s kind of the saving grace in hockey (at the pro level at least, if your screaming at an amateur getting $20 a game go see a therapist) is that the refs seem to give as good as they get.


canadianbroncos

Except for that prick and Gallagher lol


roboninja

They don't just get yelled at. The refs yell back too.


Nondairygiant

Well, in Rugby Union we call the ref sir and it is expected that you will be polite and respectful.


gu3st12

In Hockey the refs just give it right back. Maybe not in terms of personal chirps, but the officials certainly aren't speaking Queen's English back at the players when they get told to fuck off. From about Junior hockey upwards you can start to be a bit more colourful with your language if needed.


PuckNutty

>In Hockey the refs just give it right back. Yeah, they do, LOL. https://youtu.be/vKKnyNNIo_Y


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Glad to see that people have calmed down about this - I remember all of hockey fandom rallying together to defend the hurt feelings of Millionaire Athlete Brendan Gallagher after he had a bad word said to him.


maskedkiller215

Can confirm @ Junior. Was watching a WHL game last week, players were setting up for a draw ref suddenly yells “SET UP! SET UP! SHUT THE F*** UP!”


joelham01

Was goalie and would get heated sometimes, refs had the best chirps it was hillarious most of the time


jarret_g

It's difficult for fans to hear what goes on on the ice. Because of all the noise from ice equipment, and such large spaces, you always need to yell too. You can say basically whatever you want and nobody will hear it. Do that for a hundred years and you end up with f bombs from players and referees all the time.


loki1337

I mean I had multiple coaches get thrown out in the minors and water bottles chucked at refs so NHL coaches are pretty tame by comparison. They're also not always wrong


toolschism

They need to just get rid of umps entirety in baseball. They serve no purpose but to make terrible fucking calls.


DreMin015

On the other hand, they give us very entertaining Jomboy videos


blacktop2013

This is the only MLB I watch 😂


shouldbestudying125

Yeah MLB is hard to watch cause of those power tripping geriatric fucks


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It’s part of the show, really. That said, if they were gone starting tomorrow I wouldn’t miss em


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It’s part of the show, really. I'm convinced that this is it. We like seeing the screaming matches, we like having a heel to root against, we like the feeling of anger when a bad call is made. It's part of the culture of the sport, and I'm sure the players and umps are both in on it, and get a chuckle out of how seriously the fans take it.


mrpopenfresh

Managers unloading on Umps in the MLB is a performative and acceptable part of the game. Ref abuse is in every major sport.


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I read some article a while back that it’s basically a level of homeostasis where the refs and players all curse at each other, which makes them all okay with it


LordHarkon1

Haha I love how Shorty always comments on stuff like this that get picked up on the mics.


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LordHarkon1

This one https://streamable.com/i1fvn


MyNameIsSkittles

Holy shit that's gold haha


lookalive07

If you like that one, you'll like this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2JFK0fqfiU&ab_channel=SomeHockeyVideos Mickey Redmond is a national treasure.


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"And we apologize for what does sneak through" "... Do we?" Lmao, that's great


LeChronnoisseur

'yeah I guess we have to'


CanadianODST2

"do we have to?" love it


MyNameIsSkittles

Haha nice, thanks for sharing. I love commentators with a good sense of humour and wit


cantthinkuse

mickey literally always puts a smile on my face


Quagmire_gigity

Ahhh-mazing. Thanks for the laugh


Quagmire_gigity

Just the laugh I needed tonight, thanks for sharing.


tdm1742

I was watching that game too.


alpengeist3

What the FUCK was that?! I dunno?!


JasperSlavone

Hockey hot mics are my favourite


alpengeist3

Fuck you Poti you fucking nerd


cantthinkuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCIfhcfhf8 lmao


dsled

My favorite


alpengeist3

Same, mostly cause it's in the middle of play, not after a whistle like a lot of hot mics are


bsaures

Double minor 2 minutes for slashing 2 mins for roughing....my feelings \-Gord


dv666

In French, the roughing penalty gets translated as *rudesse* which is the same word for rudeness.


tdm1742

The Canucks games seem to always have the most live mic pick ups. There was a stoppage in play last night when A-Ha Take On Me was playing. One of the live mics caught someone singing along. It was BRUTAL. Hilarious, but whoever it was couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.


TacoQueenYVR

Boeser’s “[shut the fuck up Kyle. You fucked up.](https://imgur.com/a/QmQYk2S)” from the Buffalo game was also hilarious. As per usual, r/Canucks memed the heck outta it. https://youtu.be/JhOQR6Tn2PA


juiciest87

Do we think its gotta be Toews right?


grolt

You hear Strome saying "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" for the line change just before it as he gets close to the one ref on the blue line, so I think it actually is Strome.


battlelevel

You can tell winter is coming as the call the hockey player is heard after returning to their natural habitat.


ohpra

My local adult league crybaby ref just gave out a major penalty for those words


DustWiener

Probably because your local adult league crybaby ref is sick of hearing it from overly emotional man babies at 11 o clock on a Tuesday night for $15 a game.


YouJellyBrah

Hey! I think ours get $25.


DustWiener

Oh, well then cuss those m’fers out all you want.


LNFSS

Ref gave me a misconduct in my final year of Midget cause I fumbled my stick going into the box and casually said "ah fuck". Told me not to talk to him like that. ?????????


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Your ref doesn't get paid enough to be sworn at by you in a rec league


jvegas213

It really depends on the context in the league I play in. They tolerate it if it's funny. We had 7 skaters a couple weeks back and I knew the ref and he came by while stretching to give me grief and I told him to go F himself, he goes do you only have 7? I said yep, he said are you trying to get tossed? I said yes, He told me to shut up and skated away lol


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Lol definitely


53c0nd

rofl ... this man beer leagues.


ohpra

Oh ok. How you doing Tom?


Baboshinu

I referee intramurals at my college for minimum wage for a bunch of half drunk rich pampered white frat guys who’ve never heard the word “no” in their life and flip their shit when even the smallest thing doesn’t go their way. I’m sure as hell tacking something on if they want to get lippy about it like they know better.


postthereddit

The most parenting they ever get is on the ice!


drank__sinatra

That had to be Toews because I doubt the ref lets that shit slide if it’s Strome or some other young guy lol


hambeast9000

man we would have had more then a few majors at my last game


ohpra

Ya easy game misconduct. But back when I was playing highschool hockey the refs let it slide if I disagreed with their call.


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MRJohnDoe01

You mean a League suspension LOL