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2016 Playoff Thread

I thought both reivews were correct, but I really don't think the coaches challenge is intended to kill those kind of goals. Shaw didn't push Elliott into the net but he definitely hit him while swinging for the puck though. No way you can disallow a goal for that.
 
And how anyone calls that goalie interference when Shaw got cross checked in Elliott's direction 3 separate times during the play is beyond me.

The NHL got both calls right, regardless of what people think about the amount of time that they took to get there. That should always be the goal. Making the systems better and faster in the future is obviously important, but it all flows from the ideal that the call should be right 100% of the time.
 
Don't agree with the first review at all, at best it was inconclusive...I thought straddling the line was legal?
 
Metalleaf said:
That Reilly Smith trade is working out well right now for Florida. Another Boston Beaut.
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I was at both games in Florida and Reilly Smith is playing awesomely. 3G 2A in 2 games and he's been all over the ice. Nice pickup for the Cats.
 
Metalleaf said:
Don't agree with the first review at all, at best it was inconclusive...I thought straddling the line was legal?
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He wasn't close to straddling the line, the puck was on the line and his foot was clearly, clearly off the ice. It was bang bang in real time and an excusable miss for the Lino, but in slow motion it was clearly offside.

Straddling the line requires a foot down on either side of the line, this wasn't that.
 
I mean if his skate was on the ice on the neutral zone side of the blue line he isn't considered offside...so why all of a sudden is his skate being off the ice but still over the line now offside?
 
Metalleaf said:
I mean if his skate was on the ice on the neutral zone side of the blue line he isn't considered offside...so why all of a sudden is his skate being off the ice but still over the line now offside?
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Because he's over the line. His only point of contact with the ice is in the offensive zone before the puck. Offside. If he has two points of contact with the ice and one is in the neutral zone, he's considered still in the neutral zone.

Again, I don't see how this is remotely workable any other way without becoming a ridiculous **** show of bad calls. This is as cut and dry as it gets. The puck enters the zone before you enter the zone and you're considered in the zone as soon as your point of contact with the ice is entirely in the offensive zone.
 
I thought both calls were correct.

That said, this idea that the reviewers have camera angles that we don't is hilariously absurd.
 
MindzEye said:
He wasn't close to straddling the line, the puck was on the line and his foot was clearly, clearly off the ice. It was bang bang in real time and an excusable miss for the Lino, but in slow motion it was clearly offside.

Straddling the line requires a foot down on either side of the line, this wasn't that.
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You don't have to be on white ice... as long as your foot is on the ice and hasn't fully crossed into the zone.
 
MindzEye said:
Because he's over the line. His only point of contact with the ice is in the offensive zone before the puck. Offside. If he has two points of contact with the ice and one is in the neutral zone, he's considered still in the neutral zone.

Again, I don't see how this is remotely workable any other way without becoming a ridiculous **** show of bad calls. This is as cut and dry as it gets. The puck enters the zone before you enter the zone and you're considered in the zone as soon as your point of contact with the ice is entirely in the offensive zone.
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You don't have the rule correct.

The blue line rule is weird.

You have to fully cross the line to be offside, as long as your skate is on the ice and touching blue ice you are okay.

Similarly the puck has to fully leave the zone and touch white ice to be a clearance.

Yes, they use two different points for a zone entry and a zone exit. Its weird and another ****ed up rule of hockey, but thats why widening the blue line actually mattered when they did it 15-20 or so years ago.

That said, yes, they got the rule technically correct... but this ticky tack bullshit where we are measuring it down to the millimeter feels like the damn crease rule that everyone hated. Oh lets go upstairs and see if his toenail is in the crease, even if it has no effect on the goal.
 
They should just automatically start the review process on every goal in the playoffs back on TO. So by the time the refs call the review is already done, or near enough.
 
The St. Louis/Chicago series is ****ing awesome. Those might be the two best teams in the league. The first round is the best time of the year.
 
The Hawks are very lucky it's tied. I think the winner of it comes out of the West. The Blues are finally playing their game in the playoffs.
Tampa/Detroit isn't getting much talk, but I'm surprised how ugly and physical it's been.
 
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