Bouma's goal should not have counted, and should have been blown offside. Hamilton's goal happened like what, 30 seconds after Stajan's offside, and a technical offside as that? That is the problem with the rule. The coaches challenge rule for offside is there to prevent a goal like Bouma's from happening. Unfortunately, the way it's written, it's used to take away perfectly legit goals from counting. The Flames could have stayed in the offensive zone for 10 minutes and scored, and based on a technical rule, the goal would have been disallowed.
It's a bad rule the way it's written. Limit the challenge to 10 seconds max from the missed offside, or something.
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