The New York Post's Larry Brooks reports that the NHL's hockey operations department is refining a technology that may help reduce the number of disputed goals via placing cameras inside goalposts...
“We are testing and experimenting with ‘in-post’ cameras and would like to introduce them when we are comfortable that they are completely functional and workable,” [NHL VP of hockey operations Mike] Murphy said. “We are not there yet. When we feel we have it right we will start to put them in nets throughout the league.”
The current plan is to place the cameras halfway up the posts, but, as per Murphy, “The league is testing different distances from the ice level.”
The NHL’s video review on goals at the moment is second only to the system used on the tennis tour as far as accuracy — probably as exact on MLB’s system on home runs. It’s not perfect, but it’s close. Cameras in the goal posts will bring the league closer to perfection … in this one regard, mind you.
But Brooks also takes the time to suggest that:
1. As soon as the puck touches the goal line, it should be a goal;
2. And that all plays in which the puck enters the net should not be reviewable:
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