Career
After a junior season with the Windsor Spitfires in 1946, Skov played four seasons as a forward in the International Hockey League, most notably for the Detroit Hettche club, with whom he ended his playing career in 1952. He then went into officiating, and after an apprenticeship in the minor leagues joined the National Hockey League as a linesman in 1956. He went on to officiate 1,026 games before his retirement in 1975, as the league"s senior referee.
At the time of his retirement, he had refereed more games than any other referee in the history of the National Hockey League. Skov"s younger brother Glen was a player in the National Hockey League, most notably with the Detroit Red Wings, and the Skovs were the second player/official brother combination in league history, following Matt and Marty Pavelich, earlier in the 1956 season.
After his retirement as a referee, Skov became one of the league"s Supervisors of Officials, before retiring from sports to run a trophy store in his native Windsor. He is interred at Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Windsor.