Yeah the idea of replacing officials with drones, sounds great. Automate as much as you can. The technology is so close.
Get coaches off the bench too. Reduce Covid risk. Have the coaches communicate with them via some kind of transmitter where they receive the signal and then respond according to the coach’s instruction
What if they take it a step further and could create digital replicas of the players to avoid the risks to human participants too, no more concussions or pucks to the face. You can equip them with AI as well, to make their decision making indistinguishable from the real players!
Maybe even create the equivalent of a parallel universe where you can experience what it’s like if you yourself can manage the team
We are close, and someone directed me to this glimpse in to the future