My thoughts on how offside challenges should be handled:
If a goal is scored within 10 seconds of the questionable offside, the coach can challenge after the goal is scored.
If the goal happens more than 10 seconds after the questionable offside, it can only be reviewed if the coach triggered some kind of switch on the bench within 10 seconds of the offside. If the coach has triggered the switch, the play will be reviewed at the next whistle no matter whether a goal has been scored or not. If the team challenging has a timeout, they lose it if the challenge is unsuccessful. If the team does not have a timeout, they will receive a minor penalty if the challenge is unsuccessful.
The idea behind these two conditions, is that if the offside directly leads to goal, they can review down to the mm. However, if the offside doesn't directly lead to a goal, the coach better be very sure it was offside in order to challenge it.
Also, so it's easier to check, remove requirements for skates to be touching the ice, make the offside line a vertical plane.
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