Montreal Canadiens: Three Jobs Chris Lee Is Far More Suited For Than Being An NHL Referee

Montreal Canadiens games have been reduced to a joke this week as the story coming out of each game has been officiating.

To be more concise, the story has been how absolutely atrocious the officiating has been in each game of this series.

The first two games were refereed by Francis Charron and Gord Dwyer. They were okay, which we would later find out is 1000 times better than what we would witness at the Bell Centre this week.

When Chris Lee and Dan O’Rourke took control of the series as the two referees for Game 3 and Game 4, the whole series became a joke. Just the missed calls on Corey Perry are enough to get any referee fired. Or, it should be. You could quickly do up a montage of every single minor penalty in the book happening to Perry in the past two games. The problem is, none of them were called by Lee or O’Rourke.

This shouldn’t happen in the preseason, let alone the third round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The very best officials in the world should be on display with teams just a couple of wins away from the Stanley Cup Final, but that isn’t what we have witnessed.

I’m not usually one to call for people to lose their jobs, but this has gone on long enough. When Perry gets a baseball style swing to the face and is split open there should be a penalty. When Nick Suzuki is punched in the face right in front of Chris Lee while the puck is about 175 feet away, there should be a penalty.

It has become clear that Chris Lee can’t handle the duties of an NHL referee, so what job suits him? Let’s take a look at the three jobs that he is perfectly suited for.