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Originally Posted by JohnnyT
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.
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No you would not. This is a false assumption. A review to determine whether a goal would have counted or not is not also a review of whether something was a penalty. The same standard applies to goaltender interference.
Per Elliotte Friedman, they're discussing whether to review "everything" in the last 2 minutes, as they do in the NFL. What that should be is a review of all
goals within the last 5 minutes and overtime to make sure they should be goals. Some of those reviews will take ten seconds, but it's still worth doing.
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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.
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And the ref (or whoever is assessing the play) would then decide, looking at the footage, whether it was broken in his estimation and make a determination as to whether the goal should count, rather than having to do so in real time without the benefit of a bunch of different angles and slow motion. Why is this difficult?