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Originally Posted by stone hands
It actually is significant, because if the refs caught the offside on the play then there would have been no play that resulted in a goal
I'm salty too since it was a beauty, but rules are rules. It was offside
I have more of a problem with hartley wasting everyone's time with these idiotic challenges over goaltender interference
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On the other hand, there are many plays where it's blown dead and the replay shows it wasn't actually offside. You don't get to challenge that and get a do-over on the play.
There are many plays that should have been blown dead, aren't, and the team doesn't score, so it's not reviewed and no time is added to the clock.
Maybe there was a missed offside early in a period that allowed a team to have possession in the zone for an extra 30 seconds, but because a goal wasn't scored, that 30 seconds doesn't get added back to the clock, so then late in that same period the other team scores 2 seconds after time expired. If we allow teams to challenge a missed offside 30 seconds before a goal, why can't the team that scored late challenge a missed offside that happened 15 minutes earlier?
It's a fast-paced game. Sometimes, the linesmen miss offsides. Sometimes, the linesmen blow a play dead when they shouldn't have.
Goals should only be disallowed if there was a missed infraction that led directly to the goal being scored. The only thing a missed offside does is allow the play to continue. The players still have to put the puck in the net. There are a lot of things that have to happen from the time the puck enters the zone until it enters the net. None of those things are the result of a player lifting his skate a fraction of a second too early.
I've been complaining about this since it was announced. I will keep complaining about it until the standards by which an offside can be challenged are changed. If the Flames had benefitted by a challenged offside, I would be glad that they benefitted, but I would still think it's absolutely idiotic to allow it to be challenged in the first place.