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Originally Posted by AcGold
.I'd like to see calls against players made from a 4th perspective up above, don't take out the hitting but take out all the little stuff the players get away with nightly. Imagine if the skilled guys could go to the net knowing they aren't going to get slashed or crosschecked every time. Open up the ice, not the net.
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This is a brilliant idea, makes me wonder why the NHL brain trust hasn't looked at it.
Put a 5th official up high in the rafters, I think most buildings have space they could use. Equip the on ice officials with radios in their helmets. When an infraction occurs the official could call down to the on ice refs, they raise a hand and blow it down just like they do now.
It would actually be quite striaghtforward to implement and probably wouldn't take long to coordinate between the three officials involved.