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Originally Posted by Benched
it's currently doing what they didn't want it to do...it's slowing down and disrupting the game.
I have to say calls for and against the Flames aside, I find it very annoying to my experience. And some of the so called goalie interference denied goals have been bad.
I dislike this coaches challenge. A lot.
The fact there have so many successful ones though shows that a lot of calls are wrong on the ice...and it's needed.
So I don't know how to fix it.
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The first thing I'd do to fix it is put a clock on the review, like the NFL eventually had to do. Since they're being reviewed by the on-ice officials, they should already know what they saw, or at least what they think they saw. They should only require one or two additional angles to either confirm their initial view or reverse it.
If you don't see enough in two or three different replays to reverse the call, the call on the ice should stand. The review in the Caps-Jets game on Saturday went almost 10 minutes. That's ridiculous.
The second thing I'd do is limit replays to real-time only. No slow-motion replays. Let the officials review it in real time and make their decision based on that. Slo-mo frame-by-frame replays can really distort how bad an infraction actually was, especially with offsides. On a lot of offside plays, there's literally only one frame (1/30th of a second) where the play is barely offside. If watching the replay in real time isn't enough to make you change your mind, then accept that the call was right.
Finally, offside reviews should be the same as the puck into the netting reviews that they brought in last year. If the goal isn't scored immediately after the missed call, we accept that the players on the ice all continued to play as if the call was made correctly and the missed call didn't unfairly impact either team's ability to play the game, so the goal should stand.