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[YzerFan19]

I haven't seen much mainstream coverage of this yet but Twitter has been abuzz with the release of emails that seem to prove that NHL Disciplinarian Colin Campbell holds grudges and plays favorite.

Tyler Dellow of mc79hockey.com broke the news last night but his site seems to be down now. NBC Sports/PHT has the only major media coverage I've come across yet.

What happened is that emails between Campbell and former head of officiating Stephen Walkom were released as part of a court case relating to the firing of ref Dean Warren. The legal bits are dry and the specifics as to what players and what teams are being mentioned are obscured but not well enough.

Dellow did the research and found that the player Campbell refers to as the "biggest faker going" is Boston's Marc Savard. The games that Campbell complains were poorly reffed just happen to involve his son, Gregory Campbell, taking penalties.

Read the post if you haven't already.


Fake edit before I got to hit the "post" button: Puck Daddy and Deadspin are also talking about it.

Real edit: Here's a link to a cached version of Dellow's original post.

[DetroitRiver]

Bob McKenzie picked this up in his blog:

http://www.tsn.ca/bl...nzie/?id=341501


I guess when all is said and done, all we really need is consistency AND the perception of it. This is not an insurmountable task. I've been a leader of Marines for 23 years. I have had to met out justice under adverse circumstances many times.

I put much cred in McKenzie's opinions and his point that the "Colie-mail" is the worst aspect is correct. Doing justice is one thing; but, as it is said, perception is 90% of reality. The NHL disciplne office needs to be proactive in its public relations, explain their decisions more, and aggressively attack false information disseminated into the sports media.

[tsawchuk]

I have confidence that Buttman will find a way to sweep this under the rug.

[YzerFan19]

tsawchuk, on November 24 2010, 8:11 PM, said:

I have confidence that Buttman will find a way to sweep this under the rug.

Already on the way under the rug. Campbell did the media tour last week, said he did nothing wrong, and that's that. I haven't heard anything about it this week. It's done.