MacPherson was joined by his mom, Cheryl, and his wife, Laura, and young son, Brady, who was dressed up in his Dad\u2019s officiating jersey.<\/p>\n
The NHL\u2019s executive vice president and director of officiating Stephen Walkom presented MacPherson with a commemorative Tiffany crystal.<\/p>\n
Bruins alternate captain Charlie McAvoy<\/a> and Penguins captain Sidney Crosby<\/a> each presented him with a team signed jersey.<\/p>\n The custom sweaters had the number 1,000 with \u201cMacPherson\u201d as the nameplate.<\/p>\n MacPherson has been officiating in the NHL since 2011 and became a full-time linesman in 2012. He has officiated 125 playoff games and three Stanley Cup Finals, most recently the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacPherson was joined by his mom, Cheryl, and his wife, Laura, and young son, Brady, who was dressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-405305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}