from Gino Reda of TSN,

The real issue seems to be, "reviews like this suck the life out of the game". Okay, then let's fix that. As things stand now, we wait for the stoppage, we wait for coaches to review their own video before challenging, we wait for the league to find the video, we wait for them to send it to on-ice officials, and only then do we await a decision. "Life of the game" officially sucked out.

Why not allow hockey operations to look at the video while the play continues or soon thereafter and put the decision in their hands. By the time all the in-house drama plays out, we will be significantly closer to a decision.

There was a large hue and cry to get the offside calls right. The NHL has done that.

We can not be seriously considering returning to the days of allowing an "egregious" missed offside to decide a game. We also can not be seriously considering asking the NHL to turn a blind eye to plays that were only a "little offside."

This is not Brett Hull toe in the crease.

This was not an ill-conceived rule change.

The rule works.

It's the process that needs fixing.

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