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Tim Peel

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Sports Executive

The Resume

    (April 27, 1966- )
    Born in Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada
    NHL referee (1999-2021)
    Officiated in over 1,300 regular season games and 90 playoff games
    Officiated at the Winter Olympics in Sochi (2014)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was suspended a game by the NFL for being photographed doing tequila shots in a bar with blogger Greg Wyshynski (2015).
    He was named second worst referee in a players’ poll (2020).
    One blogger wrote, ‘If you saw that Tim Peel was reffing a game that your favorite team was playing, you knew you were in for a doozy of a night.’
    After issuing a tripping penalty against Nashville Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson five minutes into the second period of a game against the Detroit Red Wings, a hot mic picked him up saying, ‘It wasn’t much, but I wanted to get a fucking penalty against Nashville early.’ (March 23, 2021)
    The NHL fired him the next day.
    In a bit of retirony, he had planned to make 2021 his last season in the NHL.

Why he might not be annoying:

    Many hockey pundits noted that refs deliberately make dubious calls frequently (either as make-up calls or to even out the penalties in a game) and that Peel’s real sin was getting caught with no plausible deniability.
    Similarly, many suspected that his 2015 suspension had less to do with being caught drinking than his admission to Wyshynski that some of his questionable calls had been made in response to pressure from the NHL. (Such as a diving call against Anaheim Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen that sent coach Bruce Boudreau into a screaming fit; Peel said he ordinarily would not have made the call, but the NHL had ordered a crackdown on diving.)
    Wyshynski noted about their meeting, ‘He was just so god-damned nice to someone that picked apart his failures.’
    He took a puck to the groin during a game between the St. Louis Blues and Florida Panthers (December 11, 2018).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying