from Ray Ferraro of TSN,

...clarify the crease rule. The implementation of video review was supposed to help make calls on goalie interference plays. All that seems to be happening is goals are disallowed more often. It’s no one’s fault, it’s just what is happening.

I have broadcast world junior and world championship games and played in three world championships for Canada. Through that exposure, I’ve grown to like the international crease rule. As soon as a player wanders into the crease, the whistle blows. The play is stopped and drops out of what I call the trap door. The faceoff is moved outside the blueline. It isn’t the rule that was involved in the Brett Hull-Buffalo mess; it’s more clear-cut than that.

It has been amazing to watch how there are several whistles early in an international tournament but far fewer as the tournament goes on and players become accustomed to the rule. I think it takes away the confusion.

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