[NHL] Dave Newell passes away

[FredFan7]

[FredFan7]

Newell lead the walk-off in New Jersey that lead to a playoff game officiated by a pick-up crew of amateurs.

www.si.com/vault/1988/05/16/117674/theater-of-the-absurd-when-officials-refused-to-work-a-devils-bruins-playoff-game-it-was-amateur-hour-in-the-nhl

Perhaps the defining image of 1970s hockey was a close up of Newell sorting penalties out after a Flyers brawl. He worked hard to get things under control and his hands showed it.

[cj]

Dave's greatest claim to fame. He as scheduled to work the fourth game of the NJS-BOS series, the game after donughtgate with Don Koharski. When the Devils got the TRO after their coach had been suspended, he was insubordinate and refused to work despite being ordered to work that game.

[horserenoir]

Dave Newell was the referee when Tom Lysiak of the Black Hawks intentionally tripped linesman Ron Foyt with his stick during a 1983 game vs. Hartford at Chicago Stadium and imposed a 20-game suspension upon Lysiak.