I hate the coaches challenge. It should just be a booth review with no punishment to the teams. Basically a video official which every team already has. Replays are available within seconds of a play happening and can be reviewed a few times in a 30 second span. Enough time for the ref to skate over to the scorers box and get the info of good or bad.
Never understood punishing a team for a refs mistake. You get one wrong and then you can't dispute any others in the game? Nonsense.
Plus how do the teams get the replays to know whether or not to challenge the call? Scoreboard? Someone watching on a PVR in the coaches both. As the home team you will have access to way more camera angles than the away team. I could stream 3 or 4 different angles to an ipad within a a few seconds right on the bench. Unfair advantage?
Leave it on the ice.
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