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Get The Call Right
by Paul on 02/09/12 at 06:19 PM ET
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from Katie Strang of ESPNNewYork,
New York Rangers coach John Tortorella wants hockey to adopt an NFL-style review system for the last minute of a game, he said in a pregame news conference Thursday.
The Rangers saw their late-game rally fall short in Tuesday’s 1-0 loss to the Devils after a goaltender interference call against them negated what would’ve been the game-tying goal with less than four seconds to play. Tortorella was careful not to link the suggestion with criticism of that particular play—he was fined $30,000 last month for ripping officials after the team’s 3-2 win over the Flyers in the annual Winter Classic—but said he supports a system that would require any questionable call to be reviewed by the league’s nerve center in Toronto in the last minute of regulation.
In the NFL, calls and plays are reviewed “upstairs” in the last two minutes of the game.
“I’m not questioning the call, but it brings up a discussion and I think the NFL gets it right,” Tortorella said before the Rangers hosted the Tampa Bay Lightning at MSG. “In the last two minutes, it’s a booth replay to get the call right. I haven’t thought it all through. But maybe the last minute of an NHL hockey game, get that call right. Maybe you do have to go upstairs and make sure it’s the right call.”
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In and of itself this is a bad idea, because why is a goal scored in the last minute any more important than a goal in the first period? How is it fair if a goal is wrongly disallowed for goalie interference in the first period when there is no replay for it, but a goal in the last minute of a game all of a sudden is reviewable? To do this there would need to be either an NFL style challenge system for the entire game (and then maybe make the last minute or maybe 5 minutes automatically reviewable) or more logically, make all goals reviewable for EVERYTHING including judgement calls like goalie interference. The current system makes no sense when whether a guy kicks at a puck or not (also a judgement call) is reviewable, but goalie interference isn’t. Make all aspects of goals reviewable.
Posted by John W. from a bubble wrap cocoon on 02/09/12 at 09:19 PM ET