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Originally Posted by getbak

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.

Agreed 100%. Maybe they need to tweak the rule that it can only be challenged if a goal was scored 10 seconds after the offside (or some small amount of time). Anything beyond that and really the offside wasn't the reason the goal was scored.