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My assigner is out to lunch. He assigns me a game 180 miles north of our usual territory. I get there 1/2 hour early - change - walk out of the locker room - and it's a Hockey Rink. Both coaches wanted the game to go. So I told them I was a basketball official but I'd do my best. I talked to the scorers. They wanted to divide the game into thirds but I nixed that. We went with two 16 minute halves. Then, I made my first screw up at the Jump Puck when I threw it up in the air. Then the fouls - nobody knew how to play! I called time-out and stopped all the hand and body checking. Talk about moving screens. We shot free-throw-slap shots from the blue line. What got to me was the constant Goal Tending. I threw both the chunky dressed players out which made it 5 on 5 - just right. The final score was 103-97 and both sides said it was the damn best hockey game that anybody ever saw.
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