Ron Wicks - A Referees Life
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From the minors to the big time, former NHL referee Ron Wicks recounts life on and off the ice.
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GENERAL STORE PUBLISHING HOUSE INC.
499 OBrien Road, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada K7V 4A6
Telephone 1.613.432.7697 or 1.800.465.6072
www.gsph.com
ISBN 978-1-77123-948-6
Copyright Ron Wicks, 2013
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from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency),
1 Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario, M5E 1E5.
Cover art, design: Magdalene Carson.
Published in Canada.
Cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada.
To Barb
Thanks for steering the ship
All my love,
Ron
I have been putting this book together for quite a few years and would like to thank numerous individuals who have inspired me to write A Referees Life. Thanks go out to Mary Keenan for introducing me to my publisher, Tim Gordon of General Store Publishing House. Thanks to Tim; to Magdalene Carson, the designer; and to my editor, Lesley Murray, for shuffling the deck and keeping me on track.
The input of my friends from the media has been invaluable. Many thanks to authors, journalists, and broadcasters, in particular, to Dick Irvin, Roy MacGregor, Ross Brewitt, and Rick Drennan, with a special thank you to Chris Cuthbert and Ron Ellis for their generous endorsements. Craig Campbell of the Hockey Hall of Fame was extremely helpful in obtaining information and graphics. Susan Foster, partner of the late Maple Leafs defenceman Carl Brewer, has been a great inspiration. With all that Sue and Carl have done to increase the lot of retired players and referees, they should both be in the Hall of Fame.
My pals Gary McDonald, Brian Madigan, Bob Nutbrown, and Jim Garvie have been trusted counsellors. A most special hug to both Gloria Confiant and Karen Bennett for their technical assistance and for keeping a smile on their faces while answering my dumb questions. And kudos to my wife, Barb, for allowing me the time and the space to finally put this book together.
As a youngster, I would often see Ron Wicks jogging through our neighbourhood and, on occasion, skating laps at the Memorial Arena in Brampton. Rons local presence made him a vicarious connection for me to the game I loved and the League I aspired to cover as a broadcaster.
Wicks was a fixture on the ice as one of the NHLs most respected officials from the beginning of the expansion era to his retirement in 1986, when he left the game as the record holder for most career games officiated.
What stories he must have, I would wondrously contemplate as Ron pounded the pavement, preparing himself for his next NHL assignment. I imagined his encounters with legendary players like Howe, Orr, and Hull (and later Gretzky); the menacing confrontations with coaches from Blake and Imlach to Cherry and Arbour; the mayhem he was responsible for controlling at intimidating venues like the Philadelphia Spectrum and Boston Garden; the grandeur and spectacle of being under the bright lights at the Montreal Forum, Torontos Maple Leaf Gardens and Madison Square Garden in New York.
Now, with his new book, A Referees Life, Ron is a conduit for all hockey fans to the golden era of the game in which he played such an integral role.
Wickss decision to chronicle his distinguished officiating career in A Referees Life turns out to be one of his best calls ever.
Chris Cuthbert
Broadcaster CTV/TSN; Sportscaster of the Year, 2004, Sports Media Canada.
Gemini award winner, Best Broadcaster, 1998.
Best Sports Play-by-Play or Analyst, 2006.
Ron Wicks made the tough calls at critical times. I should know, as he gave me many opportunities to work on my penalty-killing skills at Maple Leaf Gardens. His record of 1,067 professional games speaks for itself. A true measure of a successful person is what they give back. Ron is tops in this category as well. I have witnessed his voluntary charity hours, his willingness to lace up the skates to referee countless alumni fundraising games and even take time to be an instructor at my Oldtimers Hockey Clinic. My guys enjoyed his stories and I know you will too.
Ron Ellis
Director, Public Affairs and Assistant to the President, Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto, Ontario.
Toronto Maple Leafs star forward.
Member of the 1967 Stanley Cup-winning team, and an integral part of Team Canadas win in the 1972 Summit Series.
For more than twenty-five years, I loved my job as an NHL referee. Moreover, the twenty-odd after-years of being involved with benefit hockey games, golf tournaments, and the like, are every bit as interesting. So interesting, in fact, that a former colleague and several of those players whom I personally tossed into the penalty box have encouraged this moment by saying to me, Why dont you write a book?
I have watched the game change, from when I came into the League in 1960 and there was one American player in the NHL, to the present day, where about 20 percent of the players are American, 50 percent Canadian, and the remaining 30 percent are comprised of highly skilled players from Europe and Russia, making the game truly international in stature.
I have been a whistle blower in hockey games all over the United States, Canada, and Europe, and have rubbed elbows on the ice with legends of the game, like Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Mario Lemieux, and Wayne Gretzky. I put them, and hundreds of others, in the penalty box because they deserved it. Rules are rules, and I called em whenever anyone broke em.
As a referee, this is my tale. I will take you from the good old days when we hauled a goal judge right onto the ice to show us where the puck had actually gone into the net, to the present day, where instant replays decide the outcome of the game.
The World Hockey Association and the expansion of the NHL forever changed the complexion of the game of hockey, and I was fortunate to have a rink-side seat through those tumultuous years. I invite you to join me...
Growing up in the Northern Ontario gold-mining town of Timmins was idyllic. It was the late 1940s. As a budding nine-year-old athlete, I would swim all summer long at Gillies Lake and, in the winter, I looked forward to the lake freezing over so I could skate on the ice. During the long winter months, the temperature would hit forty degrees below, but it was never too cold for skating! I recall putting on my skates in the back porch at home and skating down the hill to school, where there was an outdoor rink. There we would skate and play hockey until it was time for school to start. Another winter passion was road hockey; we would play long after the street lights came on, until our mothers called us in for bed.
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