from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- So now that Major League Baseball has adopted a 30-second time limit for managers to ask for video review and a two-minute time limit (with certain, as yet unidentified, exceptions), is it not time for the NHL to adopt similar limits pertaining to the coach’s challenges?

The offside challenge has become a mockery, resulting in routine delays of six minutes or more with linesmen struggling to decipher the undecipherable. If 90 seconds-to-2 minutes isn’t enough time to provide indisputable evidence to overturn a call, then it should stand. That applies to goaltender interference, as well.

And no, it is not about “always getting it right,” because if it were, then, a) everything, including delay of game, would be reviewable; and, b) teams wouldn’t lose their right to a second challenge if their initial one was unsuccessful.

The offside challenge is as fatally flawed a concept as the in-the-crease rule. Just wait until Lindy Ruff is leading a “No offside … no offside” chant.

- The Panthers are honoring Olli Jokinen before Tuesday night’s match in Florida against the Rangers. Jokinen will warm up for the ceremony by skating circles in the corner.

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