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Tweaking The Coaches Challenge

11/04/2015 at 9:44am EST

from Dave Hodge of TSN,

"Thumbs up" to the coach's challenge. But it needs work. So I offer two revisions that are necessary and would, I suggest, make it much more acceptable.

Re goaltender interference - a coach is able to direct the officials to review a goal for the purpose of determining if the goalie was the victim of "interference".

Goals have been wiped out because the goalie was prevented, even in a small way, from making his normal attempt to stop the puck. Perhaps he was touched by an offending player, or did not have the full goal-crease area in which to move.

Never mind that he mightn't, or probably wouldn't have made a save, a decision can be made that a goal shouldn't count regardless.

Long forgotten is the threshold of "interference". For simplicity and fairness and common sense, the NHL should stipulate that a goal must stand unless the referees are prepared to send the offending attacker to the box with a two-minute penalty for goaltender interference.

The "no goal, no actual foul" interpretation needs to vanish.

Re unsuccessful coach challenges - there needs to be a penalty.

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