from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

When the Sharks needed a botched call to advance in Game 7 of the first round against Vegas, they got it. (Yes, they needed four power-play goals, too, but that’s a mere detail.) When they needed a letter-of-the-law reversal on an offside challenge to maintain the lead in Game 7 against Colorado, they got it. This round: a critical goaltender interference review to complete the trifecta. And then maybe San Jose will score one off a ricochet off the netting in the finals.

There is little both more stupid and more unpopular in the sport than what the offside challenge has become, the latest evidence being the letter-of-the-law reversal of an Avalanche goal because of Gabriel Landeskog’s idleness by the bench in Game 7.

If it is about getting it right, what about the dozens of offside violations that occur every night but are unnoticed or undocumented because goals did not immediately follow?

Yet as long as Bettman stands in support of it, the league GMs won’t have the brass to recommend elimination of the offside challenge.

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