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Old 03-22-2015, 08:00 PM   #37
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Well, I play a sport that many on here likely know nothing or very little about. At the internaional and professional level for field hockey, they implemented video review. Each team is granted one review that they can use at any time they like for any infraction. Now if what they are correct (ie something needed to be overturned because the wrong decision was made on the field), then they get to keep their ability to have another review in the same game.

If they are incorrect and the play stands as the call on the field, then they cannot use video review again. This has made a huge difference in how things are handled, there is a strategy to it for the players and coaches. It is usually the captain that makes the call to the ref basically as soon as play stops.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing something like this implemented in the NHL. I think it would make coaches/captains really think twice before calling for a review of a play if there is a chance they are wrong. The players and coaches need to know the rules really well in order to take advantage, that is the key. If you think something should be overturned and it isn't, it is usually a silly rule, that people don't know or an old rule that likely needs to be changed.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this goes next season.
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