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The Changing Goal Call

04/06/2018 at 5:32pm EDT

from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,

“You get some of those clean calls, ‘He shoots, he scores’ … but you don’t get many anymore,” Paul Romanuk, the Sportsnet play-by-play man, was saying in a recent conversation....

Said Cuthbert: “The challenge for the guy on the air is, you want to be right 100 per cent of the time on whether it should stand or should be overturned, and you hope you’re in the 90 per cent range … Now if you’re batting 60 per cent or 70 cent, you’re probably doing a good job, because it’s hard to figure out where they’re going with some of the calls.”

If analyzing super-slow-motion replays isn’t easy, neither is calling a bang-bang play in real time.

“I remember doing a Leaf game earlier this year. Five goals and four of them were tips. It wore you out,” Miller said. “You’re really watching for tips. You’re watching for deflections. I’m not conscious of not saying, ‘He shoots, he scores.’ I just say whatever’s happening, and what’s happening is you’re getting is a lot of dirty goals.”

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