Larry Brooks calls for full NHL officiating overhaul

If the same people who have been overseeing the operation for years and years, if the Colin Campbell's and Stephen Walkom's of the hockey world are the ones charged with conducting internal reviews and charting the course, the standards will remain indecipherable.

The league's inconsistent rules as well as the seemingly incomprehensible decision making from the league's disciplinary arm for on ice violations, the NHL's Department of Player Safety, as systems that have been broken for far too long.

if the demands of officiating have become too difficult, then the methodology must be changed. And it must be changed by those who have no stake in maintaining the status quo and by those who are willing to start with a blank screen.