June 2, 2025:

On this episode of the Scouting the Refs podcast:

    • Rooney returns!
    • NHL Stanley Cup Final Officials – who moves on and who’s been cut
    • Congrats to the ECHL Kelly Cup Final Officials
    • Stars’ Hintz needs a doctor after a slash from Oilers’ Nurse. 
    • Oilers’ Kulak gets away with a puck-over-glass right before two quick Edmonton goals. The officials missed it, and you can’t challenge that.
    • Stars’ Petrovic delivers a huge hit on Oilers’ Brown, but was it clean?
    • Canes’ Aho goes low and take out the Panthers’ Reinhart – no penalty, no fine, no suspension
    • Panthers’ Luostarinen hit with a major boarding penalty for taking out Canes’ Blake
    • Florida video coach Myles Lee saves his club a goal against after Carolina goes offside
    • In the Memorial Cup between the London Knights and the Medicine Hat Tigers, we’ve got goals lost to a high stick and goaltender interference, along with the rare minor penalty for a faceoff violation.

 

 

 

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The Scouting The Refs Podcast is a weekly look at the world of officiating and player safety within the National Hockey League, AHL, ECHL, and other leagues around the world. We’ll break down the calls and the rules behind them to help understand why a penalty or suspension was – or wasn’t – handed out. 

Todd Lewis is a veteran broadcaster covering the NHL and other major league sports. Lewis is a former host on the NHL Network and on NHL Network Radio. He’s also worked for TSN, Sportsnet as a host/anchor and is a producer of other programs. 

Josh Smith is the founder of Scouting the Refs, the leading independent site related to hockey officiating which follows hockey officials across the NHL, AHL, ECHL, and other leagues around the world, including news, rule changes and interpretations, suspensions, and statistics on officials and penalty calls.