The longtime NHL official needed help off the ice Sunday night after taking a stick to the face Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has ...

May 20 (UPI) --Referee Chris Rooney, who was hit in the face with a hockey stick during the Florida Panthers-Toronto Maple Leafs series, is doing well and hopes to return to work the NHL playoffs ...

NHL referee Chris Rooney hopes to return to the Stanley Cup playoffs after suffering a black eye in a high stick accident during Game 7 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida ...