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Wrapping Up Day One Of The GM Meetings

03/19/2018 at 7:15pm EDT

from Frank Servalli of TSN,

Goaltender interference was scheduled for 90 minutes on Monday’s agenda, but the three-hour debate went on so long it was the only topic of conversation at the meeting.

“There should be change and there will be,” Lamoriello said. “It’s just making sure it’s the right thing. I think we also have to be very careful and dwell on [whether] something is majorly wrong. We had several isolated incidents that were flagrant and they overshadow everything else.”

NHL senior vice-president of hockey operations , along with colleague Kris King and director of officiating Stephen Walkom, led the media through a series of some of the most controversial calls on Monday afternoon.

The NHL reported that out of the 1,114 games and 6,593 goals scored this season, there have been just 170 video reviews for goaltender interference, including those triggered by the Situation Room in the final minute of games or overtime.

Of those 170 reviews, Campbell said Monday that there was internal disagreement or disagreement with referees on just nine scoring plays.

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from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

Back in Stephen Walkom’s day, they referred to the video review room as “Heaven.”

It was a half-joking/half-not response to the goals that started to be overturned by the NHL’s hockey operations department because the puck was deemed to be kicked in the net. Respected referees like Walkom couldn’t believe how often the decisions made in video review contradicted the way he had called the game for decades.

In closed company, the stripes would lament that only God could see the level of detail the league was scrutinizing from on high. And they were mere mortals.

“We got to the point where we didn’t know what it was, but we always knew what it was. Do you understand what I mean?” Walkom said Monday. “Like we knew what a kick was. It took us like eight, nine, 10 years to finally say ‘Woah, we’re seeing way too much. Let’s go back to the spirit of the rule.’

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