OFFICIALS On-ice officials oversee the game and oversee that all rules are being followed and keep players safe while on the ice. Officials are broken into two subcategories, linesmen and referees. Linesmen are responsible for dropping all pucks on faceoffs, breaking up fights, and enforcing non-penalty infractions like offsides, icing and playing the puck with a high stick. Referees award goals on the ice and assess penalties to players that impact manpower on the ice. You can tell the difference between a referee and a linesman by the orange sleeve on their jerseys. If a penalty is severe enough and one of the orange banded men did not see it, a linesman can report the infraction to the referee at a stoppage of play and a penalty can be assessed if deemed appropriate. There are also off-ice officials at all hockey games who oversee the more administrative side of things. The scorekeeper, timekeeper, goal judges and penalty box attendants are all examples of different off-ice officials that are crucial to making a hockey game run smoothly .
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