NCHC Hockey: Confirmed list of officials

Apparently, Jupiter’s sources were correct as he pegged the list of NCHC officials that was posted on USCHO. Brad Elliott Schlossman has confirmed this list as well in today’s blog post. There are also eight WCHA officials that were rumored to be on the list of officials that the NCHC was going to bring over from the WCHA. Unfortunately, this came to fruition. I had heard this from multiple sources. College Hockey fans aren’t really all that happy though with the list of NCHC officials.

Brian Aaron: CCHA
Todd Anderson: WCHA
CJ Beaurline: WCHA
Scott Bokal: WCHA
Dan Dreger: WCHA
Nick Krebsbach: USHL
Steve Patafie: Atlantic Hockey
Brad Shepherd: WCHA
Derek Shepherd: WCHA
Tom Sterns: WCHA
Joe Sullivan: USHL
Andy Theissen: WHL
Brian Thul: WCHA
Tim Walsh: WCHA

Andy Thiessen (AHL/ECHL)
Joe Sullivan (AHL/ECHL)
Nick Krebsbach (AHL/ECHL)
Steve Patafie (AHL)
Dan Dreger (CHL)
Brian Aaron (CCHA)
1. C.J. Beaurline (WCHA)
2. Scott Bokal (WCHA)
3. Tom Sterns (WCHA)
4. Todd Anderson (WCHA)
5. Derek Shepherd (WCHA)
6. Brad Shepherd (WCHA)
7. Tim Walsh (WCHA)
8. Brian Thul (WCHA)

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Don Adam balances careers as hockey referee, police officer

I found this little news nugget on line today that college hockey  fans might find interesting. When he is not on the ice 'making up stuff as he goes,' Don Adam is a City of Louisville,Colorado police officer.

Mike Chambers, Denver Post --- On the streets or inside an ice arena, excitement and drama seem to follow Don Adam, a genuine Front Range-raised cop. The hockey referee and Louisville police officer is one of the state's most versatile law-enforcement officers, often conducting his business in a heated college game between rivals or a civil dispute in the small city east of Boulder.

The one-time NHL referee has been a police officer for nine years and is approaching his 24th year with the Denver-based Western Collegiate Hockey Association. He is no stranger to the intense University of Denver-Colorado College rivalry, and he wore the orange referee stripes during the 1992 and 1998 Winter Olympics, five world championships and the 1993 NHL preseason.

He was the first NHL video replay official at Avalanche games, which he did from 1995 until the league began to rule on all its replays from its home office in Toronto at the start of the 2003-04 season.

"In hockey, we work from the rule book, and as a cop we work from the Colorado Revised Statutes, but to interpret those things in the two respective jobs, there's a lot of similarities," Adam said from his patrol car. "Both professions require a lot of quick decisions in pressure-filled situations. Experience, judgment and common sense are a huge part in how you apply it all."

It will be interesting to see who the officials in the NCHC are going to be when the conference starts play during the 2013-14 season. One of the questions on fan’s mind is are the WCHA officials going to officiate games in the NCHC.

I also know that a lot of fans would rather not have the conga line of questionable officials that are currently officiating in the WCHA. Most fans that I have talked to on line or in person would rather be done with them and start fresh with the new league with a different set of officials and linesmen.

When the NCHC commissioner Jim Scherr was interviewed this past winter at the REA, Scherr was asked about who was going to be officiating hockey games in the NCHC and he said that there is going to be a competition for officials because there are now three leagues instead of two. Scherr also had said that a lot of officials had reached out to the commissioner to inquire about officiating for the new league.