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Blueshirt Bulletin: Kick in the Head
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Jun 3, 2007 5:21 PM EDT
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The Ottawa Senators, a Canadian-based team in the Stanley Cup final, was awarded a goal last night after video review overtuned the referee's on-ice ruling that Daniel Alfredsson put the puck into the net with a distinct kicking motion. "What we ruled here, and it was discussed long and hard, was we didn't think it was a distinct kicking motion," said league official Mike Murphy, who works under Colin Campbell. "We felt Alfredsson directed it in. The puck hits his skate and starts to head toward the net and then there's movement [of his skate] toward the net."
OK. Except that during the Rangers-Sabres series a few weeks ago, video review overturned the referees' on-ice call of a goal off Karel Rachunek's skate, citing that a distinct kicking motion was not necessarily what they were looking for. "The puck didn't deflect off Rachunek's skate and in," NHL video director Damian Echevarrieta said. "The pass from Hossa hit Rachunek in the skate, then Rachunek propels the puck in with his skate. You can't score a goal with your skate unless it hits you in the skate and goes in based on the momentum of the shot or pass. You can't propel the puck in with your skate."
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{"commentId":754818,"authorDomain":"placenamehere"}
Last nights game really was the perfect cap on the officiating all season. You had the elbow from Pronger that was missed on the ice, you had a few calls, that though by the letter of the rules were good calls, but on plays that didn't impact play at all, an unexplainable phantom call or two, and to top it off an overturned no-goal call that was either absolutely right or horribly wrong depending on what side of their ice you're on -- and you'd both be right!
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#1 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 5:29 PM EDT{"commentId":754884,"authorDomain":"placenamehere"}
{"commentId":754884,"threadId":"110067","contentId":"754060","authorDomain":"placenamehere"}
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#2 - Sun Jun 3, 2007 6:04 PM EDT{"commentId":756775,"authorDomain":"greer"}
I didn't see the game or the goal in question, but this I think this bias talk is utter crap.
[Full disclosure: I'm a Leaf's fan, a Canadian, and I'm rooting for the Ducks.]
It makes no sense for the NHL to be biased towards the Senators. Hockey sells extremely well in Canada already, we don't need the Stanely cup to be won by a Canadian team. Logically, if the NHL was biased, it would be towards the Ducks. I have seen nothing to indicate this is the case, it would just make more financial sense for the league. The NHL needs the game to grow popularity in the US, not up here in Canada. A Cup in Anaheim might actually stir up a little extra interest in the team, and the NHL in general.
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#3 - Mon Jun 4, 2007 2:07 PM EDT{"commentId":757081,"authorDomain":"placenamehere"}
i don't think its out of purely a biased position, but i do think that there are still too many cases, this being one of them, where even after playing a full season and 90% of the playoffs there still isn't a clear definition of how a play will be called.
On these goal cases especially, where the rule states there needs to be clear evidence to overturn the on ice rulings it just seems far too subjective and far from definitive.
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{"commentId":757188,"authorDomain":"greer"}
Absolutely, the current process is almost entirely subjective, which opens the door for big problems in the playoffs. It would be better for everyone if the rules were enforced in a consistent manner from one game to the next.
I thought the level of consistency would have improved when the league moved the replay analysis to one centralized place, but it didn't seem to help, did it?
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{"commentId":757216,"authorDomain":"placenamehere"}
in one of the threads on one of the Rangers fan boards on this someone mentioned that Scotty Bowman at one point suggested putting a monitor near the scoring table and letting the on ice officials do an NFL - like review from there instead of going to the booth.
This doesn't solve the subjectiveness issue surely, but at least then the question being answered by the review is confirming or overturning "did the play happen like I, the guy calling it on the ice, think I saw it unfold" and not putting it into the hands of a totally different set of eyes.
I don't think that will happen anytime soon, but something needs to be changed about the current process -- statement from the officials after the game on what they saw to overturn the call -- doing away with the 'conclusive evidence' language so that the booth can look at it with fresh eyes and not be influenced by the on ice refs and thus able call the play on its face value & more consistently from game to game -- something.
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