Bill Friday was a good referee but elder Bruins fans still wince at his name more than 50 years later.
He was the ref for this game in 1969
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A year later he awarded Chicago a goal when he mistook a Sports Illustrated camera as the puck and the Hawks won the game 1-0. It wound up costing the Bruins home ice in 1970 but they wound up sweeping Chicago anyways.
In 1999 he was the video judge in Buffalo for Game 6 of the SCF and he knew there was an issue with the winning goal but Bettman did not want to deal with it at 2 AM and awarded the Cup to Dallas.