One of the most vocal referees celebrated a big birthday over the weekend.

Everyone’s favourite zebra, Wes McCauley turned the big 4 8 on Saturday. The Georgetown, Ontario native has become a polarizing figure in the NHL for his tough officiating but most of all, dramatic play calls. To celebrate his big day, the NHL’s social team put together a compilation of McCauley mic’d up clips and it made for some golden, GOLDEN content. If Wes wasn’t your favourite ref before, he probably will be after you give this 1:12 video a watch.

 

 

Happy birthday, Wes McCauley! 🎉 The League wouldn't be the same without you.

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Could the guy be any more dramatic?! One very important clip was left out… who knew the man loved ice cream so much?

 

 

I mean, who doesn’t love ice cream? 🍨 • (🎥: @nhl)

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Now in his 15th year of full-time ref’ing, McCauley is one of the best in the biz, as he officiated each Stanley Cup from 2014-2018. Most stripes keep it pretty straight-forward while delivering calls but think we can all agree the league’s lucky to have a guy like Wes spicing things up a bit. Honestly, he probably deserves an Oscar at this point.

Happy b-day Wes!

(H/T NHL)