Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell
Retired hockey defenceman who played 11 years in NHL with teams like the Los Angeles Kings. He later became the NHL's Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations.
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth28 January 1953
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With the rule changes that the league has adopted for the upcoming season, we believe that Stephen is ideally suited to provide direction and guidance to our on-ice officials. His judgment and professionalism on the ice, coupled with the respect he has earned as one of the top officials in the game, will be of great benefit in his transition to the officiating management ranks.
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We'll be focusing on rules changes that have been brought forth over the last year and a half. We understand certain changes have to be made, but we don't want knee-jerk solutions. We don't think the game is as bad on the ice as some people make it out to be. That's a side effect of our problems off the ice. But we do understand some changes have to be made.
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Obviously there is leeway within the rules and it's up to the officials' judgment, but the key areas are in front of the net and in the corners.
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We knew this would happen because players are competitive and they do what they have to do to win the game. So this is how the players and the managers have asked us to do handle it.
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We're just trying to make the game better. Our thought process is that we want to reward the offensive part of the game.
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(The referees) have been calling (penalties) and sticking to them. They've been calling them when it's 5-on-4 and they've been calling it late in game and in overtime. It's made for a better game.
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We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet. He was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.
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We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet.
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Our game reports are not for public dissemination and particularly not for politicians who may be using this whole disjointed affair to seemingly garner votes.
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While all of the constituent groups will never reach complete agreement on what the changes should be, we felt it was our obligation to recommend a slate of changes that will succeed in doing one thing - entertaining our fans - both those in the arena and those watching on television.
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It's going to be like: 'Enough is enough. Shut up,'
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That is not to say there will be an election before annual conference in September. But those are issues that will be dealt with by the party shortly.
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They just want make sure of where we're at in terms of the goalie equipment issue.
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that little call that could decide a game.