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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
6 Cups
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 10 January 2024 11:05 |
| smyth260 wrote on Wed, 10 January 2024 10:48 |
2) Do we need offside challenges at all? That’s a no for me.
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If I had my way, I would scrap both offside and goaltending interference reviews. I don't think they're good for the game. They both only take goals off the board. I'm fine with a level of human error, especially when we're talking about skates being a millimeter over the line. Will you get a ridiculous Duchene goal? Yep, eventually it'll happen but it's a once in a decade mistake that the league can take up with its officials.
Goalie interference - I think that's gamesmanship and players should be able to push that boundary with the refs relied upon to make the call in real time, not to wipe out goals because of incidental contact.
If you have to have the reviews, I think it should be the war room making the call so there's a greater level of consistency. Having individual refs make calls while watching the video on an iPad? It is ridiculous.
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The NHL needs to have these ridiculous reviews. No one in that organization has the wherewithal to stand in front of a mic and say they accept the human element in the game and no one cares about the endless whining of partisans who don't get their way.
Personally I'd like to see game speed only reviews that are done in 90 seconds or less. I want the (hilarious) Duchene goal called back, but I don't particular care about slow motion millimeters or the debates about what constitutes possession. Of course my desired solution is getting rid of offsides entirely and creating an 'over and back' rule.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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