Long-time NHL referee Lloyd Gilmour, who officiated the famous game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Soviet Red Army team in 1976, died last Wednesday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 82. "At last he's at peace," his son, Richard, told the Nanaimo (B.C.) Daily News. "He would have been 83 on Thursday." Born in Cumberland, B.C., Gilmour is best known for the game in which the Red Army team left the ice after Philadelphia defenseman Ed Van Impe crushed a Soviet player with a clean body check. Gilmour refused to penalize the Flyers and then gave the Soviets a delay-of-game penalty when they continued to complain and wouldn't line up for the faceoff. They were off ice for 15 minutes and had to be convinced to return. Gilmour also was the referee for Game 3 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Final between the Flyers and the Buffalo Sabres where the heat and humidity at Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium created so much fog coming off of the ice the game almost could not be completed. Read more: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=...ish&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
