Offside Coaches Challenge NHL
Offside Coaches Challenge NHL
Why this petition matters
Help stop the offside coaches challenge, it is making the game awful to watch. It takes up way too much time to review a split second mishap, sometimes up to 3 min or more we don't have time for this in the speedy game of hockey. Too many goals being called back over a hair of an infraction. It takes a camera to zoom in to barely see the mistake of a skate blade and puck it's not clear at all and even on camera is hard to judge. This is ruining the game of hockey. If you support this please sign the petition and help us eliminate or at least tame down the offside coaches challenge. Maybe after a set amount of zone time coaches cannot review offsides. If a team controls the puck for a length of time in the zone I don't believe that reviewing a play that happened almost a minute ago made the difference in scoring a goal.
"The spirit of the rule was not intended to see if the blade of the skate is centimeters off of the ice 30 seconds before a goal and had no impact on the play"
"If they have to split hairs and watch replays for 5 minutes to figure out if the guy was offsides I say let it slide. If it was an obvious blown call then reverse it. That's the spirit I think it should be used in."
"Offside exists in order to prevent goal hanging, basically. A play being a millimeter offside is fine."