The thing I don't like about video review is the reliance on "the call on the ice" (or the call on the field in football. Obviously the ref was in no position to make any sort of reasonable call on that, so saying "well, the call on the ice was no goal, so we need conclusive evidence to overturn that" is just plain dumb.
All replays that go to the "war room" should have people making a judgement without previous knowledge of what the call on the ice was. The people who make the final call should never know what the call on the ice was - it immediately biases them. If they didn't know what the call on the ice was, they'd be way more objective and I think WAY more calls would be done correctly.
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