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Originally Posted by foshizzle11
That should be 100% reviewable by the coaches and should be able to be overturned. This is exactly why they are implementing this rule. If they don't allow a play like that to be overturned and challengable, then why implement it?
They want to get it right on the ice, that was bad.
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Mostly playing devils advocate here but its not as simple as saying that play should be reviewable, there are other factors that would have to be discussed.
By the rules its a penalty for playing with a broken stick, was Abdelkader's play worthy of a penalty? If you overturned it you would also have to assess a penalty. What if St. Louis scored on the resulting power play when really what Abdelkader did was still in the spirit of the game? Basically they would have to make the penalty more vague and or add in some form of intention at the discretion of the ref if you feel the goal should be overturned but Abdelkader shouldn't have been penalized which is not something the NHL has done recently.
Another situation is a players stick gets slashed early in the play but doesn't fall apart at the time of the slash, the player then takes a slap shot which results in the stick flying in two and the puck knuckle balling past the goalie. What happens if that play is challenged and is reviewed? The one team could argue the stick was already broken when the shot was taken, while the other could say the stick didn't break till the shot was taken which wouldn't be illegal.
This could be a situation where if the refs had a monitor in the timekeepers box they could review and discuss between the officiating team without going to Toronto it could work. However if it was reviewable by the command centre its likely that more often than not the call on the ice would stand because it would be hard to get enough evidence to overturn, in which case the review just creates a delay in the games which the NHL doesn't want.