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Originally Posted by N26
My unpopular opinion is the NHL refereeing is very good.
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Agreed, in general. I think if the league would get rid of the game management mandate and just call penalties consistently, no matter the score or the time of year, NHL reffing would be about as good as it gets. The problem is almost entirely when refs let things go for reasons unrelated to the foul committed. It makes it impossible to understand what is and isn't against the rules.
My potentially unpopular opinion: abolish video review entirely. The best part of sports is jumping out of your seat fist pumping when your team scores a big goal. Watching a borderline offside and then your team scores 20 seconds later completely takes that away from the fans. You can't celebrate because you're not sure it's a goal, and then several minutes later the moment has passed, and even if they call it a goal. At absolute most, they should have a video ref that can rewind maybe 10 seconds and radio down in real time to stop the play, goal or not.