Former NHL official Tim Peel Does not like the direction the NHL is going in

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S. Harper
April 13, 2022 (0:51)

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Former NHL Official Tim Peel was one of the most well liked and respected Refs during his tenure in the NHL.

Unfortunately Tim Peel's Career didn't end the way he hoped after getting caught red handed for admitting to a make up call in the middle of a live game.

Jokes aside, Peel was given the boot by the League after that and has since started his own podcast.

Peel Podcast conducted with players, coaches and officials in St Louis with former NHLer Jamal Mayers.

This morning Peel was on TSN 1200 and gave his opinion on the NHL and the current status of the game.

Host: But the interaction with the referees, the coaches, kind of blowing their stack. Why has that changed? Is there less interaction? Is this a different handling by the refs or have the coaches changes? Or all of the above?

Peel: Probably all the above really, you know, I don't, everything I have is because of the National Hockey League.

So this isn't that I'm not being negative towards but it kind of when I see coaches getting fined for having an outburst on the bench. And I seen Maroon and Simmonds getting 10-minute misconducts for chirping, I just caution the sport that we do not want to take the emotion out of the game and that's the only thing that concerns me.

I remember�Brian Boyle�came up to me one night in Tampa after giving it to me and he came up the next shift and came up and apologized. And I told him "don't you ever apologize, because we need emotion in this game."

There's a difference between emotion and abuse. We know when we're getting abused but when a player or coach gets emotional, that's what makes our sports so good.

It's entertaining hearing stories from a former NHL Official but do you agree with Peel's opinion?

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