Yevgeny Vladimirovich Romasko

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Yevgeny Vladimirovich Romasko ( Russian Евгений Владимирович Ромасько ; English transcription: Evgeny Vladimirovich Romasko ; born January 17, 1982 in Kalinin ) is a Russian ice hockey referee . After playing in the Continental Hockey League for several years , he moved to North America in 2014 and became the first Russian referee to lead a game in the National Hockey League in March 2015 . This made him only the second European referee of the NHL after Marcus Vinnerborg . He has been active again in the KHL since the 2018/19 season.

Career

Yevgeny Romasko actively played ice hockey ( defense ) in his youth , including for the youth departments of the THK Tver from his hometown. However, he decided early on to end his active career and be active as a referee; also because he was able to earn a living with it. As a result, Romasko rose to the Continental Hockey League (KHL) and completed 310 games there by the end of the 2013/14 season. He was also part of the referee team at the 2013 U18 World Junior Championship , where he and a Swedish colleague led the final between Canada and the United States. The following year he also took part in the U20 World Cup , where he whistled a quarter-finals.

Stephen Walkom , referee chairman of the National Hockey League (NHL), discovered Romasko in the summer of 2014 at a training camp of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in Switzerland and described him as one of the best talents he had seen in a long time. Romasko's ice skating ability, which he acquired in his active career, is particularly praised. As a result, the Russian, supported by the KHL, signed a first contract with the NHL and from October 2014 led the first games in the second-rate American Hockey League (AHL). In the new situation he was supported by Igor Larionov , the former ice hockey star living in the USA, and Paul Devorski , the league's most experienced official at 56 years of age and 1600 appearances in the NHL.

After 32 games in the AHL Romasko made his NHL debut on March 9, 2015, where he led the encounter between the Detroit Red Wings and the Edmonton Oilers together with Devorski . He was the first Russian and after Marcus Vinnerborg the second European official in the history of the NHL. Pavel Dazjuk , attacker for the Red Wings, gave him a signed bat after the game. By the end of the 2014/15 season, Romasko had completed four more games.

After four years, 66 NHL and over 250 AHL games, Romasko returned to the KHL for the 2018/19 season.

Personal

Romasko is married and has a son and a daughter. His family still lives in his home town of Tver, but will follow to North America after the 2014/15 season.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile on r-hockey.ru (Russian, accessed March 10, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Nicholas J. Cotsonika: More than 25 years after Russian players arrive in the NHL, Evgeny Romasko becomes first Russian referee. sports.yahoo.com, March 10, 2015, accessed March 10, 2015 .
  3. ^ Jon Lane: Russian-born referee Romasko well-suited for NHL. nhl.com, March 9, 2015, accessed March 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Is the NHL Ready for its First Russian Referee? scoutingtherefs.com, March 4, 2015, accessed March 10, 2015 .
  5. ^ Referee Evgeny Romasko: "It was time to get back home". khl.ru, June 29, 2018, accessed on September 17, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Romasko, Yevgeny Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romasko, Yevgeny; Ромасько, Евгений Владимирович (Cyrillic); Romasko, Evgeny Vladimirovich (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ice hockey referee
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalinin