He was, however, back on the ice on Saturday for the New York Rangers’ game at MSG.
So the photo hit Twitter, and the story hit the blog, and the NHL pulled Peel from a scheduled gig refereeing the New Jersey Devils’ game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night. (Because, you know, Peel is the only on-ice official to have road beverages on an off-night.) It would blow up in their faces.Īs far as I can gather: They were steamed about the drinking photo moreso than anything in the story. Like I said to him at our meeting: If the NHL took any action on this, it goes from being a quirky human interest story to Big Hockey News. I hoped they wouldn’t, but I figured they could. But I knew Peel putting himself out there could have some repercussions with the NHL. To call it one of the more well-received stories we’ve done here would be an understatement, and again I thank you for that. It was an informal, on the record chat we went off the record when discussing more sensitive topics. The tequila shot image seen here was something Peel encouraged me to post online after I asked him, and he did the same when it came to a story about our meeting the following day. It was a meeting that could have gone a dozen different, more contentious ways, but Peel’s a good guy who genuinely wanted for me to learn more about where he’s coming from and vice versa and in turn, to enlighten critics of NHL referees about why they do what they do.
Many of you read about that meeting in this Puck Daddy story, and for that I thank you. On one stool was a referee that many cite as one of the worst in the business, and on the other was a writer that maligned him quite often, to the point where we rated his blown calls with Mario Kart banana peels. In what was already going to be his last season in 2021, Peel got caught profanely admitting to penalizing the Nashville Predators for a make-up call, ending his final season early after the NHL decided to suspend him for the rest of the season.Last Thursday, I met referee Tim Peel at a pub in New York City. Greg Wyshynski, now with ESPN, chronicled the polarizing presence of Peel to the point that a bar meeting between the two in 2016 became a story in itself after photos of a "well-served" Peel went viral online. Some may also take this as an opportunity to recall Peel’s many NHL misadventures. While Peel didn’t speak with Gentille, Peel’s lawyer Travis Noble claimed that the report is “inaccurate” and that Peel “would never berate, chastise or say anything less than encouraging to a young referee.” 5, the officials’ families filed a police report. Peel was eventually suspended from coaching for 30 days, despite not being a coach barred from the referees’ room for two years, despite not being a referee and placed on probation for two years, but not prohibited from watching games from the stands, according to McGlynn, Boren and Missouri Ice Hockey Officials Association board member Andrew Bethmann. SafeSport and Missouri Hockey did not respond to a request for comment from The Athletic. Neither SafeSport, Missouri Hockey nor USA Hockey contacted either boy’s parents, the families said. Gentille reports that representatives responded to accusations made against Peel, resulting in some strange consequences: Former NHL referee Tim Peel finds himself in hot water after confronting young officials following a minor hockey game in St.
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