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Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70) [message #831377 is a reply to message #831376 ]	Wed, 27 March 2024 18:37

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CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 27 March 2024 18:08

Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 27 March 2024 15:51

Dragon_Matt wrote on Wed, 27 March 2024 14:44

How about an in the building off-ice ref that can also make calls and radio the other refs in live time.
A goal goes in but play keeps going, the office ref can radio down and get a whistle, instead of resetting the clock 4 minutes.
a blatant high stick occurs behind the play, off-ice ref can rewind and make a call and radio the call to the on ice officials.
Why wouldn't this be possible?

Exactly the point I was trying to make, with the proper tech and protocols the review could be quite quick and time efficient.. and there are examples of it working well in other sports leagues.. instead of the doddling process the NHL now has. even RUGBY has a live real-time review where you can actually hear the discussion between the on-field ref and the review team up in the box looking at the replays.. they talk it over.. and then make very quick decisions.. so its obviously possible to do.. NHL has FOUR (4) on-ice officials and still blow calls.

I just think it's another layer in the futile attempt to make a perfect reffing system. I know we'd still complain when 5th official made a call against the Oilers and we'd whine when they didn't buzz down to on-ice refs. We shouldn't forget that a fifth official might have fixed that call, but they might not have. What? You think the video reviews have fixed goaltender interference? I think all of this takes away from our enjoyment of watching the game. By and large the refs do a really good job calling a ridiculously fast game in real time and we get very few Duchene-bad offside calls. I'd rather accept the mistakes and put the onus on the players to make the refs irrelevant than pretend an infallible system can be created to keep us happy.

Remember, the problem last night wasn't the refs getting a difficult call wrong it was the Oilers blowing a 2 goal third period lead.

All this being said, I can see which way the world is moving. A future 5th official seems inevitable.

I’m with you. We don’t need more reviews.

And the problem is that it always starts because of ones like this that seem obvious fixes and then evolves so that some day we spend ten minutes on the referees trying to decide if a player was tripped or if the stick just hit him after he was already starting to fall.

I’m okay with a level of human error and I’m okay with people trying to use gamesmanship to get calls some times too. Sometimes that will go against our team and sometimes for us. It’s more fun than getting it perfect but doing a dozen reviews a night.

Not to mention the NHL will still never get it perfect. We’ve seen that with goalie interference and offside reviews. At some point there’s still a shade of grey.

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Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: OilFans on Tue, 26 March 2024 20:30
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Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Mike on Wed, 27 March 2024 08:17
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 27 March 2024 13:07
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 27 March 2024 13:13
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 27 March 2024 13:33
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Dragon_Matt on Wed, 27 March 2024 15:44
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 27 March 2024 15:51
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: CrusaderPi on Wed, 27 March 2024 18:08
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Adam on Wed, 27 March 2024 18:37
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: JPro on Wed, 27 March 2024 16:11
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: Skookum Jim on Wed, 27 March 2024 20:00
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: inverno76 on Wed, 27 March 2024 15:08
Re: Review: Edmonton @ Winnipeg (Game #70)	By: oilfan94 on Thu, 28 March 2024 07:38
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