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Official (ice hockey)
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"Hockey referee" redirects here. For the officials in field hockey, see Umpire (field hockey).
In ice hockey, an official is a person who has some responsibility for enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game. There are two categories of officials, on-ice officials, who are the referees and linesmen that enforce the rules during gameplay, and off-ice officials, who have an administrative role rather than an enforcement role.
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