from Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun,

It was an embarrassing moment for the NHL and one every coach hopes to never experience.

On Sunday, the league’s situation room made a significant error after Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella challenged a Carolina Hurricanes goal that he believed should not have counted because of a missed offside call.

The situation room ruled that the play was not offside, counted the goal and assessed the Blue Jackets a two-minute delay of game penalty with 1:15 left in the second period.

The Blue Jackets killed off the 1:15 and when they came back onto the ice for the third period, the rest of the penalty had been taken off the board as the NHL acknowledged its own error — the goal should actually not have counted because the play was offside and therefore, there should have been no penalty.

It was very little consolation to the Blue Jackets, as the goal was still left on the board and they wound up losing by one, 6-5.

“Well,” Jets head coach Paul Maurice said Monday when asked about the botched video review. “You know what? You always have good intentions, right? And that coach’s challenge has just done way, way more good in getting it right than, than that. So they had a mistake and they fixed it, I guess, as best they could. And it will bring scrutiny, right? And then it will force, maybe a better word, it will encourage, a review of the program and that’s how things get better, right?”

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