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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's kind of funny how different the NHL is from other sports leagues. Offense sells in almost all sports. Few fans shell out $$$ to see football or hockey teams play lock down defensive games. The juicing of players in MLB kind of helped the sport gain a lot of popularity it lost after their strike because fans like home runs and scoring. It's why MLB turned a blind eye when they knew Sosa, McGuire, Canseco, etc were all juicing because of the attention the home run races were attracting. The NFL introduced new rules to making it harder for DB's to cover receivers which in turn has led to QB's routinely putting up over 4000 yard seasons when at one time that was a big milestone. That's what fans want as nobody wants to see 10-7 games.
Meanwhile over the years the NHL has introduced silly skate in the crease rules (which resulted in big embarrassment in the Stanley Cup), and replay like this all designed to remove goals. Can someone explain this epidemic of bad goals due to egregious offsides that was such a big issue they had to introduce this replay rule in the first place? In the big picture this happened few and far between but now we are seeing goals called back because skates are over the line but off the ice or less than an inch offside. I'm sorry but this is simply not good for the game or fans that after cheering a big goal by the home team having to sit and wait minutes to find out that was all for not because a skater was determined to be 1 cm offside on the NHL's HD cameras.
I got no issue with using replay to determine if a puck did or did not cross the goal line as that's what all fans want. However this offside replay rule is just a downer for fans in a sport where goals are already become too few and far between. The CFL has got horrible since they started replaying pass interference and illegal contact and there's a fine line where too much replay is a bad thing for all sports.
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The NFL and NCAA are just as bad or worse when it comes to reversing exciting plays. Whether it is a TD, pick, catch, fumble etc. They review everything. It sucks the life out of the game. You never know if a play will stand.
Nowadays when your team scores in football you can never cheer right away. The actual TD call is when the ref says "and the call on the field is confirmed" and it is super lame.
And Baseball has horrible problems of reviewing big plays exactly like the NHL. They call exciting plays out because a guy's stomach may have been off the bag for less than 1/10 of a second while he was sliding over the base. It actually totally goes against the spirit of the replay rules, which was initially designed just to make sure of who got there first.
If anything, we want the NHL to avoid becoming the NFL and MLB. We certainly don't want the NHL to emulate them.