#BRUCE KNIGHTHOOD FULL#
The teams brawled for a full hour after the end of the second period. One of the last NHL games Hood officiated was an infamous playoff match between the Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques on April 20, 1984, known as the Good Friday Massacre. The Mother's Day victory at Boston Garden gave Boston its first Cup since 1941. Orr was tripped moments later by Blues defenceman Noel Picard, and the picture of Orr flying through the air became one of hockey's most iconic moments. Hood was the referee for Game 4 of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, when Boston Bruins legend Bobby Orr scored the Cup-winning goal 40 seconds into overtime by firing the puck past St. But, as of 2017, has not been elected as a member of the Hall. In 1994, Hood was nominated to the Hockey Hall of Fame by 12 existing members, including former players like Bobby Hull and Maurice Richard. He was the last official to wear a number one on his jersey and the last to officiate in all Original Six arenas. After the NHL referees walked out of a training camp in Brantford, Ontario, six of the 20 referees continued to work out in Hood's hometown of Milton in late September 1969.
#BRUCE KNIGHTHOOD PROFESSIONAL#
He was the first professional to referee a World Championship game in 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.Īs an NHL referee, Hood was instrumental in the formation of the NHL Officials Association in 1969. Officiating record ĭuring his 21-year NHL career, Hood officiated 1,033 regular season games, 157 Stanley Cup playoff games, three All-Star Games, and three Canada Cups.
#BRUCE KNIGHTHOOD TRIAL#
Between 19, he handled Central, American and Western Hockey League games, before getting a NHL trial in 1966. Īfter 1962-63 Hood joined the NHL pool of referees. In the fall of 1962, Hood left Milton to go officiate in the International Hockey League in the central U.S. During the 1961-62 season, he served as a linesman in his first full season in the OHA Junior "A" league, before working in the 1962 Memorial Cup Finals between Hamilton and Edmonton. Hood officiated his first Intermediate hockey game in 1957 after a linesman was cut in a game he was serving as a back-up for.
In the late-1940s and 1950s, Hood wrote an occasional sports column for the Milton Canadian Champion newspaper played for Milton junior and senior hockey clubs was the statistician for the Milton Minor Hockey Association, the Milton Industrial Hockey League and the Central Ontario Hockey League secretary of the Halton County Baseball Association referee in chief of the Tri-County Hockey League and the Milton Referees' Association as well as having played junior hockey with Oakville, Georgetown and Brampton, juvenile with Acton and commercial hockey in Burlington. Hood was born in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada (now part of the Town of Milton) on March 14, 1936, and moved into Milton in 1947. Bruce Melvin Hood (Ma – January 5, 2018) was a Canadian author, businessman, politician, and a professional ice hockey referee in the National Hockey League (NHL).
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