Stars’ Marchment escapes discipline for stick tap on referee
May 12, 2025
Stars’ Marchment escapes discipline for stick tap on referee
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He’s full of dumb plays, and this was the dumbest.
As much as i love hockey, the officiating is the worst of all pro sports. So arbitrary and inconsistent.
Technically another missed call.
Lets wait and see how the next game between the Jets and Stars is called before we decide if he did escape discipline.
They were showing previous instances of interacting with refs and they were even less egregious than this one. This was deliberate yelling at ref like a child and then stick tap on the shins while play was still going on. Obviously not going to hurt him or anything, but making contact with him. Some shown from past for 10 games left me squinting to see what even happened for comparison. As some analysts were saying, its now going to be used as precedent for any future interactions – they didnt do anything for this, so incidental contact or whatever during a scrum or exchange by any player will have to be ignored too. I can only assume the league pressured to not write him up for it for optics with how overt the interaction was.
As a former low level official, I find this absolutely mind blowing a) he didn’t get a penalty right there from the ref, and b) the league says “eh, nobody got hurt”
Basic, and I mean absolute basic rule of hockey, don’t touch the ref. In ay, yes, stuff happens. That was not in play, that wasn’t a tap to the shin pads after the whistle as an apology for drilling the ref in ankle with a wrist shot clearing attempt. That was an attempted intimidation slash done in anger.
Unbelievable.
A player who has built a reputation and been fined for diving gets angry enough to hit a ref when he doesn’t get a call? You’ve made a career out of trying to embarrass refs and make their job harder (and probably chewed out behind the scenes) and expect all the 50/50 calls? Come on man
Even the refs miss their calls against their own.
Sets a very bad precedent. 2nd dumb call of that game
This is complete bullshit
Getting tired of his shit. Was surprised this wasn’t a penalty or fine
Surprised he didn’t take a dive after tapping the ref.
So I’m okay if you need to suspend him for a few games….
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He’s full of dumb plays, and this was the dumbest.
As much as i love hockey, the officiating is the worst of all pro sports. So arbitrary and inconsistent.
Technically another missed call.
Lets wait and see how the next game between the Jets and Stars is called before we decide if he did escape discipline.
They were showing previous instances of interacting with refs and they were even less egregious than this one. This was deliberate yelling at ref like a child and then stick tap on the shins while play was still going on. Obviously not going to hurt him or anything, but making contact with him. Some shown from past for 10 games left me squinting to see what even happened for comparison. As some analysts were saying, its now going to be used as precedent for any future interactions – they didnt do anything for this, so incidental contact or whatever during a scrum or exchange by any player will have to be ignored too. I can only assume the league pressured to not write him up for it for optics with how overt the interaction was.
As a former low level official, I find this absolutely mind blowing a) he didn’t get a penalty right there from the ref, and b) the league says “eh, nobody got hurt”
Basic, and I mean absolute basic rule of hockey, don’t touch the ref. In ay, yes, stuff happens. That was not in play, that wasn’t a tap to the shin pads after the whistle as an apology for drilling the ref in ankle with a wrist shot clearing attempt. That was an attempted intimidation slash done in anger.
Unbelievable.
A player who has built a reputation and been fined for diving gets angry enough to hit a ref when he doesn’t get a call? You’ve made a career out of trying to embarrass refs and make their job harder (and probably chewed out behind the scenes) and expect all the 50/50 calls? Come on man
Even the refs miss their calls against their own.
Sets a very bad precedent. 2nd dumb call of that game
This is complete bullshit
Getting tired of his shit. Was surprised this wasn’t a penalty or fine
Surprised he didn’t take a dive after tapping the ref.
So I’m okay if you need to suspend him for a few games….