More Than Meets the Eye on Auger's Retirement?
Source: CanucksArmy - Jun 15, 2012 at 4:29 PM
NHL announces "retirement" of referee Stephane Auger after 12 yrs and one major blowup with Alexandre Burrows. More to this than meets eye.
— David Shoalts (@dshoalts) June 15, 2012
Look, despite the obvious temptation to go into your best munchkin falsetto and cry out in joyous celebration that "the wicked witch is dead!" - it always sucks when anybody loses their job, and their livelihood. Yes, that includes Stephane Auger.
Read past the jump for more.
Even without Burrowsgate, Stephane Auger was not a very good NHL referee, something his lack of playoff experience can attest to, but

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