An NHL referee’s hot mic may have picked up an attempt to deliver a make-up call

The NHL is looking into it.

It’s more than likely happened any number of times in the sports world: an official or referee or umpire completely botches a call and then finds a way to make it up later in the game (perhaps less so in the age of instant replay).

And that could be the case here, but we lack a lot of context.

During Tuesday night’s Nashville Predators game against the Detroit Red Wings, the Preds’ Viktor Arvidsson was whistled for a tripping call. On the Predators’ FOX broadcast, right before the game went to commercial, you can hear someone say, “It wasn’t much but I wanted to get a [expletive] penalty against Nashville early in the …”

(WARNING: as you can tell, there’s NSFW language in the video.)

That’s the voice of one of the officials, and Colin Campbell, the NHL’s director of hockey operations, had this to say about what the league would do:

Here’s the call, by the way:

Look: we don’t have much more context than that snippet. There could be more to that sentence that explains it, but it sure sounds like one of those make-up calls. We’ll see if the NHL agrees.

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