Connor Bedard 🚫 Abuse Of Officials 🚫 Penalty

32 comments

1. Good for Connor to calling them out

2. Classic case of the nhl’s weakest links being the weakest links. First they blow a call and then double down. Pathetic.

3. When the refs think they are the show. Time for them zebras to get punished for abuse of power. They're probably just butthurt cause their wives have the whistles at home.

4. Yea let me make an absolutely shit non call and then put all accountability on you..

5. Refs are so weak minded. Soft. Sensitive. In other words.
   Liberals.

6. Even our refs are getting soft now

7. If a single player hurt his feelings , he should uninstall every public app of his phone 😅

8. Selfish baby

9. when did the NHL start hiring DEI officials? these guys have been terrible over the past 10 years we do not need more snowflakes on the ice. try calling an honest game and stay out of the way of play

10. As a ref I would keep the abuse of officials call to physical alterations with refs (e.x. Hitting one when the linesman is inbetween the fights even by accident or bumping into a ref on purpose after a miss call). The refs chirp the players too they understand the lingo and all.

11. How is that not tripping?

12. Refs are cowards

13. Bedard is the most over-rated human of 2025.

14. Bedard spits like a pussy

15. That ref would have had to retire to recover if Jim Schoenfeld told him "have another donut!".

16. Anyone who watched Bedard play in the WHL knows all about his Golden Boy attitude. If refs didn't call what he wanted he would be slamming his stick onto the glass . I saw it 1st hand .

17. Probably the worst penalty I have ever seen

18. Looks like he accidentally spit on the ref??

19. To those commenting that abuse calls should only apply to physical contact of an official there are two separate types of fouls, verbal abuse and physical abuse. Two completely different animals. The real abuse seen here was the missed tripping call.

20. Rabbit ears from an official that put Angel Hernandez to shame

21. I didn’t see a penalty committed against Bedard, but I also didn’t see a penalty committed BY Bedard. Weird reffing.

22. These referees routinely call penalties on defending players for tapping the puck carrier’s glove with their stick (slashing in NHL 2.0). But then an ACTUAL, OBVIOUS penalty(even in NHL 1.0) is committed…no call. And if you hurt the referee’s feelings by criticizing them for the obvious blown call, the penalty is on you. It makes you wonder what else the referees do to get even with coaches or players who rightly call them out for obvious incompetence. Might explain a lot of strange happenings. Oh well. Just another day in Clown World.

23. Complete joke. He said one sentence to the ref. I hear a lot of complaining from players when refs miss calls, is it ever a penalty? Rarely, and if so, maybe a 2 minute. If that ref is that soft of a 19 year old telling him his is wrong, then he needs to put some diapers on and go to toddler level reffing.

24. Aaaaaah, the whiny cindy Crosby syndrome

25. If he said something that everybody says, every single game, there simply wouldn't be a penalty. People like to say here how "the ref is obviously soft" – But 1) NOBODY here knows what was actually said…

    2) put yourself in the refs shoes… If YOU are ok with taking any and every level of abuse short of being punched in the face, be my guest. I for one have WAY more self respect then that. There's a difference between being "soft" – and setting boundaries. Setting a line. As proven by point 3)

    3) How many times does this ref give out 10 minute misconducts? Every single game? Obviously not… So maybe, Just maybe, this isn't a matter of "refs having egos out of control," or "being soft" – but maybe its a matter of 19 year old CB crossing a line? When he's having an awful season, and losing in this game, and feels like a call was missed? (Right or wrong on that feeling is irrelevant. You can talk to the ref and tell them you disagree, without crossing the line…)

26. The NHL "should" suspend the officials, but they won't. First, they missed a blatant penalty. OK, that happens. But then you have to be thick-skinned enough to hear about it when you miss a call like that. Bedard didn't show them up. He wasn't demonstrative or anything on the ice. The crowd in the stands and even watching on TV had no idea he even had a beef with them. NHL fans pay to watch the players, not the officials. Unless a player just absolutely blows up and embarrasses an official, there is absolutely no reason for the officials to overreact like that. Also, bad job by the Blackhawks head coach. When your young, star player gets that kind of treatment from the officials … that's when you need to escalate matters and start throwing sticks, water coolers, whatever you can pick up, etc. onto the ice. If the officials want to make it about them … well, make it a spectacle.

27. The ref's ears are on fire 🔥

28. They should only be allowed to call abuse of an official if a player actually punches a ref. I don't give a fukk what you got called, grow up.

29. That ref is soft af. Apply some lotion to thicken your skin you 🐈

30. Fire that referee

31. I'm no Bedard simp, but that's some BS!
    Orange stripe on each arm and a big yellow one down his back. Weak ass ref.

32. What a joke completely ruined the game