The offside review rule was a knee jerk reaction to rare egregious offside play resulting in a goal. IMO the league is better without it as there have been too many marginal reviews resulting in goals taken off the board which deflates arenas after goal celebrations.
We have a record OT game and once again the knee jerk reactions come out. There's nothing wrong with playoff overtime as most games don't go past the 1st or 2nd OT.
As for the puck over the glass penalty. There's little doubt it sucks when it happens like it did for Gio yesterday but it's a good rule and what he did fully deserved 2 minutes. He's a professional NHL player and should be able to shoot a puck around the boards without lifting it over the glass. It's bad enough we have teams collapsing all around the net when holding on to late leads making it more difficult to get pucks through and the last thing we need is to start letting teams simply dump the puck over the glass when in trouble.
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