Bruce Hood (ice hockey)

Bruce Hood
Born	1936 Campbellville, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canada
Occupation	NHL official (1963 - 1984)
Children	Randy, Kevin, Marilyn

Bruce Hood (born 1936) was born in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. He has been an author, businessman, politician, and a professional ice hockey referee in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Hood was born in Cambellville in 1936, and moved to Milton in 1947. In the late 40's and 1950's, Hood wrote an occasional sports column for the Milton Canadian Champion newspaper; played for Milton junior and senior hockey clubs; was the statistician for the Milton Minor Hockey Association, the Milton Industrial Hockey League and the Central Ontario Hockey League; secretary of the Halton County Baseball Association; referee in chief of the Tri-County Hockey League and the Milton Referees' Association; as well as having played junior hockey with Oakville, Georgetown and Brampton, juvenile with Acton and commercial hockey in Burlington.

Hood officiated his first Intermediate hockey game in 1957 after a linesman was cut in a game he was serving as a back-up for. During the 1961-62 season, he served as a linesman in his first full season in the OHA Junior "A" league, before working in the 1962 Memorial Cup Finals between Hamilton and Edmonton.

In the fall of 1962, Hood left Milton to go officiate in the International Hockey League in the central U.S. before moving on to the NHL.

During his 21-year NHL career, Hood officiated 1,033 regular season games, 157 Stanley Cup playoff games, three All-Star Games, and three Canada Cups. He was the first professional to referee a World Championship game in 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As an NHL referee, Hood was instrumental in the formation of the NHL Officials Association in 1969.

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