Canadian Press
9/28/2006 5:36:18 PM
(CP) - Ron MacLean has spent years acting as a referee for Don Cherry on Coach's Corner.
The longtime Hockey Night in Canada host will turn in his microphone for a stripped shirt and a whistle Friday night when he referees the second period of the NHL exhibition game between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins at Melon Arena.
MacLean will be paired with Stephen Walkom, a former referee and now the the NHL's senior vice-president and director of officiating.
"I've been working on my backward skating," MacLean, a Level 5 referee with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, said during a conference call Thursday.
"With a solo referee system, the one I worked in for 23 years, you skated pretty well forward for the whole time. In the two-man system, a lot of it is backward skating.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=179168&hubname=nhl
9/28/2006 5:36:18 PM

(CP) - Ron MacLean has spent years acting as a referee for Don Cherry on Coach's Corner.
The longtime Hockey Night in Canada host will turn in his microphone for a stripped shirt and a whistle Friday night when he referees the second period of the NHL exhibition game between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins at Melon Arena.
MacLean will be paired with Stephen Walkom, a former referee and now the the NHL's senior vice-president and director of officiating.
"I've been working on my backward skating," MacLean, a Level 5 referee with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, said during a conference call Thursday.
"With a solo referee system, the one I worked in for 23 years, you skated pretty well forward for the whole time. In the two-man system, a lot of it is backward skating.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=179168&hubname=nhl