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Shick Surprised By Well-Wishes
by Paul on 03/12/09 at 11:24 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
The text message was from an NHL general manager. Rob Shick’s cell phone had reached its limit in voice mails, and the team executive was frustrated he couldn’t leave one for the man affectionately known as “Shicker.”
“Fitting, right? One last profanity-laced message from a GM,” Shick, laughing, told ESPN.com this week. “But he was just joking. A lot of people reached out to me last weekend, and that was really nice. I wasn’t expecting it.”
No, the humble referee would have been just fine had his last NHL game on Saturday, the Wild-Kings tilt in Los Angeles, attracted no fanfare. But once word got around late last week that Shick was working his 1,321st and last NHL regular-season game, the phone calls came flooding in from players, coaches, officials and various hockey people.
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Rob Shick Refs His Last Game Tomorrow
by Paul on 03/06/09 at 08:57 PM ET
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from Helene Elliott of the LA Times,
You know an NHL referee has done a good job when you don’t notice him during the game but realize later that he let the players play and kept everyone in line.
Rob Shick is one of those good referees, but the Temecula resident is retiring after he officiates the Kings’ game against Minnesota Saturday afternoon at Staples Center. He’s scheduled to have 22 friends and family members in the audience.
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