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Originally Posted by zamler
It's convoluted but ultimately simple. You can't blow play dead because if team A thinks they scored but didn't (the officials are not sure), and team B goes on to score the Cup winning goal, then they may have been denied a championship because of a bad call/play blown dead. In other words if the play is reviewed (team A) and the puck did not go in the net, then team B wins.
That's why you let the play go until a whistle blows the play dead as per usual. If a goal was scored but missed on the ice then everything after that has to be nullified if the review shows goal.
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I'd rather be in a situation where nobody will ever know what happens after then to take away something that did happen. The chances of something happening right away 200 feet away is quite rare. The problem is play goes on for 2 minutes with teams trading chances back and forth so really the non-goal didn't direct affect play.
It's not like hockey is continuous. There are stoppages for all sorts of things from the puck going over the glass to the puck going down someone's pants. It's a low scoring game and reviews don't happen often so just stop the play.