Harrison - HS Girls - 1/28/10

0:20 - Skate into the zone as the back official - take 3 hard strides - battle for the first 10 feet you skate - impress everyone with your "first-step speed"
2:30 - Work the goal line by going to home base and to the end wall -- try to avoid going too close behind the net, unless you observing the goal line and a potential goal
9:00 - Battle the first 10 feet again - show off your "gusto" when you are the back official in the 2 official system or when you are a linesman in the 1-2 or 2-1 systems.



1:45 - Another example of you going too far behind the net on your goal line positioning.
5:25 - I talk about "Common people doing common things uncommonly well."  That's what being an elite level official is all about -- you do all of the little things really, really well.  There is no secret other than that -- be exceptional on your awareness...be exceptional on your hustle (positioning)...be exceptional on your skating mechanics.  Be a common person doing common things uncommonly well! (Rick Looker wanted another [R.H. Peters] reference in one of my blogs -- there it is...he quoted the "common people" line all the time :)

9:00 - Working the 2 official system is more effective if you hold the end zone blue line a bit more and then trail play as it heads up ice.  You don't always have to be in front of the play, skating backwards as it heads up ice.  That would be ideal everytime, but I have seen refs get into trouble with leaving lines too early to do that very same thing of beating play to the far blue line....be OK to trail play (not 10-15 feet, like the 1-2 system) at a short distance as it heads up ice.



0:45 -  The "Do-Si-Do" penalty = good call.
1:52 - A tripping penalty call with great penalty cadence - BUT...keep your eye on all 40 players at all times = 3 P's.
3:45 - Once again, I talk about trailing play...you are too far off the end zone blue line.
8:50 -  Example of skating up the ice as back official on the icing -- don't do what 95% of the officials out there do...do what is exceptional...do the 'common things uncommonly well'.