Written Option 2

As a referee myself, I have many an opinion on officiating. To me, a referee only does their job when applying the rulebook. Save for when explicitly relevant, I believe a referee applying their own discretion to calls is a dereliction of duty. However, as you can imagine there's many opinions on this and having egotistical partners disagree rather strongly has led me to leave officiating behind. There are many officials who, in spite of training and certification preaching applying the rulebook as written, still cling to their schools of "impact calls", and "gameflow", despite the rebuttal that was offered at my last recertification clinic: by not making call, you *are* having an impact on the game. It is the players who commit the offences, after all, the officials are merely to react to them. I think Hockey Canada's doing a wonderful thing on paper in trying to change the culture of the game with an expanded discrimination rule, and any rude and abusive behaviour being able to be penalized by a misconduct, but a massive hurdle to overcome right now is referees who refuse to apply these rules this way.