VIDEO: NHL Investigating Hot-Mic Incident with Ref During Wings/Predators Game

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed to The Athletic's Adam Vingan the NHL is investigating an incident that occurred during Tuesday night's Detroit Red Wings and Nashville Predators game involving a hot-mic picking up something it shouldn't had from a referee.

The incident took place in the second period when a tripping call was made on Preds forward Viktor Arvidsson and the ref could be heard on the mic saying they were targeting the Predators for a penalty.

Please be warned there's some coarse language in the footage.

As per The Score:

Referees Tim Peel and Kelly Sutherland were working the game, though it's unclear whose voice was on the microphone. In 2015, Peel said the NHL wants officials to sometimes make calls with "game management" in mind - in other words, to ensure a contest doesn't get out of hand.

Maybe if you're a mic'd up ref, you shouldn't express how you wanted to call a penalty against a team earlier in the game, changing how you ref the rest of the game.

"It wasn't much but I wanted to get a fuckin' penalty against Nashville early in the..."#Preds #LGRW pic.twitter.com/6fZImkdqLr
— Matt Best (@bestofmatt) March 24, 2021