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Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Other fresh ideas to be rolled out have included the ref cams, new line-up formations, and stadium show elements such as pyrotechnic displays, which are set to develop further throughout the tournament stages.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Edmonton challenged for goaltender interference, but the goal stood after refs determined that Bennett was pushed into Stuart Skinner in the crease by an Edmonton skater.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
The replays show one of those crazy hockey plays that is dangerously close to that rule where a ref’ would have been justified to wipe off the goal.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2025
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Noun
Clark had been shoved and grabbed all night, and had done a little shoving herself; much of it had escaped the censure of the refs, which set the scene for the scrums that followed.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
Other fresh ideas to be rolled out have included the ref cams, new line-up formations, and stadium show elements such as pyrotechnic displays, which are set to develop further throughout the tournament stages.
—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Edmonton challenged for goaltender interference, but the goal stood after refs determined that Bennett was pushed into Stuart Skinner in the crease by an Edmonton skater.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
The replays show one of those crazy hockey plays that is dangerously close to that rule where a ref’ would have been justified to wipe off the goal.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2025
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“Ref.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ref. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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