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What year did NHL referees stop wearing name plates and change to numbers on their sweaters?

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What year did NHL referees stop wearing name plates and change to numbers on their sweaters?

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I hope someone can add specific dates, but I know that the change to names happened in the late 70s/early 80s, and the change back to numbers is quite recent (early 2000s).