Don Koharski (born December 2, 1955, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a professional ice hockey referee. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida with his wife and together they have two sons. December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dartmouth neighbourhoods and former city bounderies in relation to Halifax Regional Municipality Aerial Picture of Dartmouth Dartmouth, founded in 1750, is a community and former city in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... A referee is a person who has authority to make decisions about play in many sports. ... Nickname: Cigar City, The Big Guava, T-Town Official website: http://www. ...

Koharski began his officiating career as a linesman in the World Hockey Association as a 19-year old linesman in 1975, and in 1976 was signed by the American Hockey League, while working with a local dairy farm milking cows. His NHL career began in 1977 as a linesman before moving up to referee status in 1980. World Hockey Association logo The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league in North America from 1972 to 1979. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... The American Hockey League (AHL) is regarded as the top professional hockey league in North America outside the National Hockey League (NHL). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Entering the 2005-2006 NHL season, Koharski had officiated over 1,400 regular season games, 235 playoff games, 11 Stanley Cup Finals, two All-Star Games, two Canada Cups, and the 2004 World Cup. He is currently the league's second most senior official behind referee Kerry Fraser. [1] On April 8, 2006, Koharski reached the 1,500th regular season milestone when he officiated a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lighting. [2] 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The regular season is a term used, primarily, in North American sports. ... A playoff in sports (North American professional sports in particular) is a game or series of games played after the regular season is over with the goal of determining a league champion. ... GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ... Stanley Cup on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame The Stanley Cup, originally called the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, is awarded each year by the National Hockey League to the champion of its playoff tournament. ... All-star (also, Allstar or All Star) is a term with meanings in both the worlds of sports and entertainment. ... The Canada Cup refers to several types of professional sporting events held in Canada: It is also the previous name of the World Cup of Golf. ... World Cup is the name of various high-profile international competitions in a variety of sports, particularly team sports. ... Kerry Fraser (born May 30, 1952 in Sarnia, Ontario) is an NHL referee. ... A Spanish kilometre stone A milestone on the Boston Post Road in Harvard Square, Massachusetts, USA Slate milestone near Bangor, Wales A milestone or kilometre sign is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in... The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

He is perhaps best known for an incident following a 1988 playoff game between the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. [3] 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Boston Bruins are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in the Continental Airlines Arena of the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. ...

New Jersey coach Jim Schoenfeld was infuriated with Koharski’s performance and waited for him in the hallway near the officials’ dressing room. The situation quickly escalated with Schoenfeld allegedly shoving Koharski and telling him to “have another doughnut” because he was a “fat pig.” Jim Schoenfeld (born September 4, 1952 in Galt, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who has also coached hockey at the highest levels. ... The term dressing room may be applied to different places. ... Doughnuts being glazed at a Krispy Kreme store in Sydney. ...

The NHL responded by suspending Schoenfeld, but the team took legal action and was granted a court order preventing the suspension. Upset by what happened, Koharski’s colleagues stood with him and boycotted the game, which resulted in the league using low-level replacement officials. A court order is an official proclamation by a judge (or panel of judges) that defines the legal relationships between the parties before the court and requires or authorizes the carrying out of certain steps by one or more parties to a case. ... This page is about boycott as a form of protest. ...

The incident was later parodied in the “Wayne’s World” movie. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...

During the NHL player lockout of 2004-2005, Koharski officiated a charity game between former players in the United Hockey League as part of their All-Star Game festivities. [4] The term lockout has the following uses: Lockout (industry) is a work stoppage in which an employer prevents some or all employees from working, even to the extent closing the business. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UHL logo The United Hockey League (UHL) is a professional ice hockey league with teams in the United States. ... All-star (also, Allstar or All Star) is a term with meanings in both the worlds of sports and entertainment. ...

Koharski's brother, Terry, has officiated in the AHL for six years, and in the ECHL for thirteen. His son, Jamie, is a highly-ranked referee who has officiated as a teenager in the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League. Jamie has gone on to referee in the UHL, AHL, and ECHL. [5] The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States and Canada, generally regarded as a tier below the American Hockey League. ... A typical OHL hockey game. ... The Western Hockey League is one of the three hockey Major Junior Tier I leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. ...