They really need to fix all the delays in the game. I’m tired of coaches trying to delay time to make conversation with refs to buy time for their video coaches or put up their finger telling the refs to wait a minute. I also really hated the leafs being able to use their time out to give their video team extra time… I always thought if you use your time out, you give up your chance to challenge a goal - that’s how it should be. Absolutely no conversations between refs and coaches after goals… either they challenge the goal within 5-10 seconds (5 seconds preferably) of the goal being scored or there is no challenge. Make it a switch for a challenge light on the bench that the coaches need to press. If it’s not pressed by the time the ref drops their hand for the line changes, then no challenge is accepted. Period. If your team isn’t at the centre ice dot then I guess you just lose the face off automatically cause the ref is dropping the puck. This will make for less frivolous challenges like what happened last night because teams won’t have time to check their own video for so long looking carefully for something so slight as a puck grazing a glove.
I’m also tired of the stupid attempts at buying time after an icing call… players intentionally breaking their sticks or goalies “conveniently” having equipment issues just at the right time. It’s ridiculous that refs just let that go when every one of us knows exactly what they are doing. Make things like that an automatic delay of game. If the goalie has an equipment issue after an icing, then the team has to put in their backup goalie… no warm up time for them.
It’s so easy. Just don’t fall for the BS that we all know teams are pulling.
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