Saying Goodbye to the NHL’s 2026 Retirees: Chris Lee, Steve Kozari, Steve Barton, Brad Kovachik, and Bryan Pancich ...

The NHL has promoted four officials – two referees and two linespersons – and hired six new officials to join the league’s officiating roster for the 2026-27 season. Halkidis, 32, has been working in ...

The Ontario Hockey League has announced its officiating team for the 2026-27 season. This year’s crew is made up of 108 officials including 40 referees and 68 linespersons.

The Western Hockey League (WHL) has introduced three rule changes for the upcoming 2026-27 season - one of which fans are hoping to see in the NHL ...

The NHL made a bunch of minor modifications to last year’s rules. This year? Not so much. Only one rule has changed for the 2026-27 ...

The AHL has selected the officials working the 2026 Calder Cup Final. Here are the referees and linespersons for Chicago Wolves vs. Toronto Marlies. With five referees and five linespersons selected, ...

Only one ref pairing saw both officials advanced from the Conference Finals: Garrett Rank and Jean Hebert; that duo will continue to work together in the Stanley Cup Final. Refs Wes McCauley and Chris ...

Refs Wes McCauley and Chris Rooney have been paired up once this postseason: MTL/TBL Game 7.

Referees Wes McCauley and Pierre Lambert are paired up for the second time this postseason, having come together in Round 2 to work MTL/BUF Game 1. McCauley was paired with Brandon Blandina in the ...

The teams have been cut from 16 to eight; the officiating roster has also been reduced from 44 to 24. Here are the stripes moving on to the second round of the National Hockey League postseason. Here ...

* Penalty Differential represents the absolute value of the variance of penalty calls by team per game. If Team A takes two more penalties (or two fewer) than Team B, this is a 2. Lower numbers ...

The sixteen teams are set — so are the 44 officials — for the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Here are the 22 NHL referees and 22 NHL linespersons chosen to work the National Hockey League postseason this ...