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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
the best thing is that if these goals were against us and waived off, no one here would have an issue. Heck if they counted you probably would say "why didn't we challenge that? it was offside"
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You know, "if it wasn't against your team you wouldn't have a problem" is one of the laziest, most intellectually dishonest arguments a person can make. Making such an argument, frankly, only calls you out as a someone not to be taken seriously.
What people wanted replay for was to get rid of blatant mistakes like
this. What people did not want was to see the game slowed right down and goals taken away because two linesmen staring at a six inch screen think that a guy might have been offside by the width of a penis hair. What we ended up with (and so too did MLB, incidentally) was a solution worse than the problem it was meant to eliminate. And that is true whether or not it benefits or harms the Flames.
There's really three things to do to improve this:
-First, make it so the offside rule is that a player's body must be on the plane of the blue line, even if not touching it.
-Second, take the video monitors off the bench and severely restrict how much time a coach has to challenge. They shouldn't be allowed to deliberate first. If you think it was a bad call, signal the off-ice officials immediately, or too bad.
-Third, two minute delay of game penalty if you're wrong.
Combine these three, and the rule begins to function as it was intended: to catch and reverse blatant mistakes.