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Originally Posted by New York RKY
Talking to the refs is absolutely pointless anyways. They don't give a crap what the coach/player has to say. Whether it actually makes an impact the next time is debatable as well.
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It does more harm than good, personally as a ref, the players who whine the most tend to be the ones I dislike the most, depending on how they go about it. If the player approaches me in a calm manner and will have a civilised conversation, I'm more likely to listen to what they have to say than the ranting idiot who shouts and uses profanity. The same goes for coaches.
It is possible to get a ref to change a call though. I regularly line in the British semi-pro league which has a rule that a team can only have 3 imports on the ice at a time. Teams are allowed to dress 4 imports per game, and the team in the situation had 4 imports plus a technically British player (played 2 consecutive years of juniors) with a Russian name. He was on the ice while there were 3 imports, the ref has a brainfart and notices there are 4 guys with foreign names on the ice, so calls a too many imports bench minor penalty. The captain calmly came over and told us we had made a mistake because that player was in fact not an import, so we reversed the call and just got on with the game.
A common misconception on HF is that refs can't take back a call when advised by the linesman. I have made a ref take back a high sticking call because I told him the player was hit in the face by the puck, not a stick.
