October 2008 Archives

Here's a quick note for HockeyRefCast listeners. The primary hard disk crashed yesterday on the server where the HockeyRefCast blog is hosted. This resulted in the podcast blog and the podcast feed being temporarily unavailable.

Of course I was personally responsible for restoring all of the backups, so I spent much of the last 24 hours doing just that. I'm exhausted.

I'm not as close to being done with producing this episode as I expected to be. There's one segment that hasn't been recorded yet, and I have to finish some administrative paper work before I get back to the podcast. So it looks like Episode 2 will be delayed until at least the first week of November.

Update on December 4, 2008: Due to a couple of family emergencies that occurred in November, Episode 2 had to be delayed. Yesterday I finished editing the feature interview with Shane Hanlon of the ACHA. Episode 2 should be done and published on iTunes within the next few days.

Link to the webcast for downloading to your iPod, iPhone, or other compatible device.

Host: Dave Aiello
Guest: Ian Walsh, NHL Referee

Highlights of Episode 1:

• An introduction to the webcast,
• Hockey Officiating news from the Summer of 2008,
• An interview with our special guest, Referee Ian Walsh from the National Hockey League.

Show notes:

• Introduction to HockeyRefCast:
• HockeyRefCast.com: Home of the webcast.
• HockeyRefCast [at] gmail.com: Webcast email address.
• Information about Dave Aiello, host of the webcast:
• Biography:


Dave Aiello

Dave Aiello is a high school and college ice hockey official from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. He officiates ACHA Division I and II Hockey, which is college club hockey in the United States, and in ECAC West, which is a college varsity hockey league at the Division III level.

Dave is an Internet application developer during the day. He founded the website called RinkAtlas.com, which is a site that provides door-to-door directions to over 2,000 rinks in the United States and Canada. He also founded the website OperationGadget.com, which is a weblog about electronic gadgets and the technology used in sports.

Dave also does some freelance writing for Inside iPhone, a website about the Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch which is published by O'Reilly Media.

• DaveAiello.com: Dave Aiello's personal website.
• RinkAtlas.com: Dave Aiello's website providing door-to-door directions to 2,000 indoor ice rinks in the United States and Canada.
• twitter.com/daveaiello: Follow Dave on Twitter for more information about HockeyRefCast.
• Officiating news from the Summer of 2008 / Rule Changes:
• NHL
• 2008-09 Official NHL Rulebook from NHL.com, including a video hosted by Stephen Walkom with extensive examples.
• NCAA
• PDF Version of the 2008-2010 NCAA Rulebook
• 2008 NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Video
• National Federation of High Schools
• 2008-09 High School Ice Hockey Rules Changes Announced, Press Release from the NFHS.
• USA Hockey
• Not a rule change year, except for the ACHA which plays slightly modified NCAA rules.
• USA Hockey Rules page (including Rulebook and Casebook, Off-ice Officiating Manual, and Junior Rulebook).
• HockeyCanada
• HockeyCanada Rule Changes for the 2008-2009 Season (PDF Document / Memo), courtesy of Hockey Nova Scotia.
• Ian Walsh interview:
• Biography:


Ian Walsh
(photo: NHL)

Ian Walsh grew up in Philadelphia, where he lives today. He has been in the NHL since the 2000-2001 season and has worked over 275 regular season games.

Prior to joining the NHL staff, Ian worked in prestigious leagues such as the United States Hockey League, the ECHL, and the American Hockey League. He officiated the ECHL finals in 1996 and the AHL conference finals in 2002.

• Ian Walsh page on NHLofficials.com.
• The Atlantic District Officiating Development Camp Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary on AAHArefs.org.
• Training Camp article from Behind the Scenes with Ian Walsh on NHLofficials.com. This article includes photos of NHL officiating staff members participating in the fitness tests.
• Miscellaneous:

HockeyRefCast has been accepted into the iTunes Store Podcast Directory. If you want to subscribe to HockeyRefCast with iTunes, please visit the following URL and click the "Subscribe" button:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=292700557

HockeyRefCast is a webcast about ice hockey officiating.  I'm planning to produce twelve episodes lasting 30 minutes or less that will appear about once a month.  Listeners will be able to subscribe to the webcast via iTunes and other webcast content syndicators.