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Originally posted by GRAYLING
Question:
I was working a game last night with a Rookie official. He made a conduct foul call. From my vantage point this call should have been a push (30 seconds) or and excesive body check (1 minute). When he relayed me the call I said conduct foul what reasoning. He said that he did not want to put the kid in the box for the full minute and all the older officals that he has worked with have told him to use that call.
After reading the rule book this was the wrong call. Has anyone experienced this situation, when an inexperienced offical makes a call and you know it was not the right call? How did you handle such a situation?
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The "older officials" part is where the problem is really coming in. A lot of older officials like to give the "lessor foul" (calling a slash a hold, calling an illegal body check a push, calling a trip a push) because they think this keeps both coaches happy. This official may have gotten that idea from these officials.
But here, calling a conduct foul makes NO sense, since the penalty would be the same as for a push from behind, and since the push from behind in no way meets the definition of a conduct foul. I think in this case I'd huddle with the official and say, "Look, you can call that a push, or an illegal body check, but there's no way you can call that a conduct foul. If you don't think the foul was an illegal bodycheck and you don't want the kid in for 1:00, call it a push. But if it was an illegal bodycheck, you put him in there for 1:00. It doesn't matter what you ''want'."