On this week's episode of Bear Tracks, presented by Pink Whitney by New Amsterdam Vodka, we are joined by ECHL senior vice president of hockey operations, Joe Ernst, who has been involved with the league for over three decades. He discusses his upbringing in western New York and his time as a member of the Buffalo Sabres equipment staff, his longtime work as a veteran of over 1,000 games refereed in the ECHL, and the current state of officiating in the game of hockey today.