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Greg Kimmerly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5605828 ↗
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Greg Kimmerly (born December 8, 1964, in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired National Hockey League referee who is currently the Director of Officiating in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Kimmerly was an NHL official from the 1993-94 NHL season to 2016, his final game being the Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs on April 2, 2016. Kimmerly wore the number 18.

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This entry incorporates text from “Greg Kimmerly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.