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36                 Issue #127  August 2023                                                        www.sportsenergynews.com




      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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