How their fans do not understand this. To fix a skate lace like they keep saying. He has to remove the pad, take the laces out, relace his laces, and put his pad back on. You can't even do that in the NHL.
Since he posted the whole play, there were 4 Gophers back (one costing on the back check). Don't blame the refs when you could have still prevented it.
They have people saying if a ref had an equipment issue, they would have waited until fixed. In reality that is very not true, they leave the ice to get an equipment manager to fix it from one of the teams right away.