A former colleague shared a video urging coaches and parents to stop yelling at young game officials. Dave Kadun, a senior official in Alberta, highlights the emotional toll this behavior takes on young referees, emphasizing the crucial role they play in the sport. He calls for respect, patience, and encouragement towards officials, stressing that their well-being is essential for the future of hockey.
It offers an important message to coaches and parents involved in minor hockey - stop yelling at young game officials. "This needs to be said," Kadu wrote as a preamble to his voiced message."Young officials are skating off the ice in tears. They’re being yelled at, disrespected, and broken down—by you. These kids are giving their time and effort to officiate the game we all love, but the way they’re treated is driving them away. Without officials, there’s no game.
"Hockey coaches and hockey parents, you need to do better," said Kadun adding in all his years as an official this has been the worst for coaches and parents for yelling at officials, especially the young ones."Think of what you’re doing when you're yelling at a 12- or 13-year-old kid because they missed a small penalty, an icing, an offside.
Kadun notes it's already tough to get young officials into the sport and the abuse makes it even harder. The work stoppage was in protest to an incident in which a young ref was confronted in the parking lot at Frank Crane Arena - as well as a lack of prompt response from the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association in dealing with the matter. Another incident saw a young official locked in a dressing room.
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