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Jun 9, 2025 | Tonight’s Officials: NHL
The officiating quartet from Game 1 returns for tonight’s game in in Florida. Monday’s National Hockey League officiating lineup for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final:
Refs Wes McCauley and Francis Charron worked Game 1 of this series (EDM W 4-3 OT), where they handed out 7 penalties – 4 on Florida and 3 on Edmonton – including two automatic penalties: one for a failed Coach’s Challenge and one for a puck-over-glass in overtime.
This duo is working together for the fourth time this postseason, having also worked EDM/DAL Game 1 (EDM L 6-3) and CAR/FLA Game 3 (FLA W 6-2). in the Conference Finals. McCauley also worked the deciding Game 5 between Edmonton and Dallas (EDM W 6-3) with ref Chris Rooney.
Wes McCauley was paired up with Furman South in Round 1, working MIN/VGK Game 1, EDM/LAK Game 2 (EDM L 6-2), and TBL/FLA Game 3 (FLA L 5-1), before being partnered with Dan O’Rourke for COL/DAL Game 7. McCauley also had to step in and work the lines at FLA/TOR Game 2 after an injury to Shandor Alphonso.
He worked Round 2 with TJ Luxmore, skating at CAR/WSH Game 1, TOR/FLA Game 3 (FLA W 5-4), VGK/EDM Game 4 (EDM W 3-0), and DAL/WPG Game 5.
Referee Francis Charron started the postseason alongside Graham Skilliter, working STL/WPG Game 1, COL/DAL Game 2, WSH/MTL Game 3, CAR/NJD Game 4, and TOR/OTT Game 6.
He partnered up with ref Gord Dwyer for the second round, officiating VGK/EDM Game 2 (EDM W 5-4), TOR/FLA Game 4 (FLA W 2-0), WPG/DAL Game 4, and CAR/WSH Game 5.
Combined, the Oilers are 4-2 under either of tonight’s refs, while the Panthers are 3-2.
Linespersons Trent Knorr and Scott Cherrey are also back from Game 1 of the Cup Final. They were paired up starting in Round 2, where they worked CAR/WSH Game 1, TOR/FLA Game 3, WPG/DAL Game 4, and WPG/DAL Game 6; the duo also worked EDM/DAL Game 1, CAR/FLA Game 3, and CAR/FLA Game 5 in the conference finals. Knorr worked the opening round with James Tobias, while Cherrey skated alongside Libor Suchanek.
Series Supervisor: Kris King
Stats have been updated through two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Data in blue shows current playoff stats and ranks.
Games: RS (Regular Season) / PO (Playoffs)
Stats/Numbers: ’24-25 avg. (’24-25 rank) | ’25 Playoffs (’25 Playoff rank)
Number in orange/parentheses indicated referee’s rank among active officials.
* Penalty Differential represents the absolute value of the variance of penalty calls by team per game. If Team A takes two more penalties (or two fewer) than Team B, this is a 2. Lower numbers indicate less variance between total penalties in a game – that is, a closer number of calls for both teams.
The full line-up of playoff officials for the Conference Finals of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs:
NHL Referees, Linespersons Selected for 2025 Stanley Cup Final
We’ve got referee stats, new rules, new refs, promoted officials, and an updated pronunciation guide for 2024-25.
Here is the NHL’s officating roster for the 2024-25 season:
NHL Officials – 2024-25
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