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Continued from page 26 Brockville as well. I started teaching some equipment from a friend and bit controversial, I’m sure it’s a goal
for the Sportec Penguins in the accounting part-time at St. Lawrence it was quite a thrill. I dressed in but the goal judge didn’t have the
city league, - that took quite a in Brockville and that led to the full- the room with the Canadiens and light on so, I called him over to talk.
toll.” Graduating with a three-year time position in Cornwall where following the game Rocket gave I was well respected as a referee,
Business Administration / Industrial I’ve been for the past 25 years.” For me an autographed twenty-dollar but the rink is packed and I’m from
Management Diploma plus a two- many of those years Sean, along bill which I sold that same night for Morrisburg. The arena was jammed
year Accounting Diploma, Sean with Mike Pettinella, coached the forty dollars, - a bad mistake.” The and it took a few minutes for the goal
found employment at Combustion SLC Sharks hockey teams leading Referee in Chief for the region at the judge to get to an exit where I could
Engineering (now the Laframboise to Provincial Championships on time, Tim Miedema, happened to be talk with him. All eyes were on us. I
building,) in Long Sault. The four occasions. Competing against at that game. “He approached me asked him if this was Game 3 of the
company paid for Sean to continue the other twenty-four Community and asked me why I wasn’t reffing,” series, the crowd saw him nod his
his education by taking night Colleges in Ontario, the Men’s Sean recalled. “I told him that I had head yes and so I turn around, point
courses at Carleton University hockey team won in 2011 and again never really thought about it, so he to the net, and called a goal.”
where he graduated with a CMA in 2016, with the Women’s team got me in. There were six levels, and After gaining a few years of
(Certified Management Accounting taking Provisional honours in 2014 I was able to start at Level 2. The experience and continuing to further
Designation.) and again in 2015. following year I obtained Level 3, his officiating credentials, Sean
got noticed and started working Jr B
“It’s funny how education took How Sean began his long career and Jr C and then a couple of years began working lines in the Central
me this route,” Sean said. “Nine as hockey referee was far from later I began working lines in Jr A in Jr Hockey League, then progressed
years into my employment with conventional, working his very first the Central Jr Hockey League.” to working in the Ontario Hockey
Combustion Engineering, our game with Montreal Canadiens League for the next eleven years.
company got bought out, many of us legend Maurice “Rocket” Richard. Lots of things happen during That first game in the OHL came
were displaced, so I went and spoke “I was in high school at the time the course of officiating a hockey sooner than expected and turned
with the Dean at St. Lawrence and was working at the Morrisburg game. One Jr B game that stands out to be quite a memorable
College, telling him that I was Arena,” Sean recalled. “The Rocket out for Sean was a playoff game experience. “I was scheduled to
interested in teaching. He suggested asked me if I would referee with him, in Winchester, with the Morrisburg work a Brockville Braves Jr A game
that because I lived in Morrisburg I told him that I wasn’t a referee. He Lions playing the Winchester on a Friday night and my assigner
at the time that I should apply in continued to coax me so I borrowed Hawks. “We had a goal that was a Continued on page 37
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