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Get The Call Right, The First Time

05/04/2016 at 8:02am EDT

from Dave Hodge of TSN,

The NHL needs to start at the beginning and make sure the original calls are the right calls, and although video review and the way it is implemented is part of the problem, it just might be necessary to add more of it to get calls right the first time. If Washington coach Barry Trotz could have used a timeout to challenge the minor penalty given to Letang, he surely would have done so. It would be a better use of the coach’s challenge rule than for a razor-thin offside.

For all the preaching about doing whatever it takes to get calls right, the NHL allows itself to get some of the most important ones wrong because of what can and can’t be challenged, and because of what can be done to deal with things after the fact. “Thumbs down” to the system; it has to change.

more plus Hodge on coaching dismissals...

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