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| Bill McCreary, No. 7. |
In addition to being very pleased to hear Pat Burns got into the Hockey Hall of Fame, I was about as equally delighted to learn former NHL referee BILL McCREARY was also heading into the Hall.
You can say what you will about NHL officiating these days, but gone are the days of the Kerry Frasers and the Bill McCrearys. Bill was one of the finest referees I ever watched in the NHL -- and I hated it when he retired. He was fair. He was tough. And he very rarely got it wrong, even when the league used just one referee.
His presence in the Hockey Hall of Fame is well deserved.
A little about McCreary
He officiated 1,700 regular season games, 282 playoff games, and one All-Star game.
He worked at least one game in each of the Stanley Cup Finals the Devils were in prior to 2012 -- and worked every Final from 1994 to 2007. He didn’t work the 2008 Finals, but was back in 2009. He also worked the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
McCreary retired April 2, 2011, after officiating a game between the Caps and Sabres at the Verizon Center. (He did not work the post-season that year).
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