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4 unusual facts about Don Koharski


Don Koharski

He was the league's second-most senior official, behind only referee Kerry Fraser.

Koharski is perhaps best known for an incident that occurred following Game 3 of the 1988 Prince of Wales Conference Finals between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils at Brendan Byrne Arena.

The incident was parodied in the movie Wayne's World, in which Frederick Coffin played a police officer named "Officer Koharski."

Swede Knox

Knox, as a linesman, later filled in as referee during a game in Toronto in the early 1990s, when Don Koharski couldn't finish the game and Kevin Maguire made his NHL officiating debut as a linesman.



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