t's a chant Don Van Massenhoven and his National Hockey League officiating colleagues aren't likely to hear again. Since the NHL went to two referees and two linesmen for the 1998-99 season, Three Blind Mice doesn't play any longer.

And it won't likely ever again.

Neither it nor the one-ref system will be back, says Van Massenhoven, who'll suit up as a defenceman tonight at Strathroy's Gemini Sportsplex for a fundraising game involving some of the guys he officiates.
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