Paul Stewart: The Danger of 'Fix It in Replay' Comes Home to Roost

I'd prefer that video review for offside be eliminated.

I'd prefer that video review for offside be eliminated.
- Scoob

I agree, but then the most egregious misses -- Game 6 of 1980 Cup Final, Briere's way offside goal in Game 1 of the 2012 ECQF, to cite two examples -- would not be able to be overturned. Perhaps allowing the Situation Room to directly institute such reviews, with the intent of existing only for reviewing apparently blatant missed calls.

I agree, but then the most egregious misses -- Game 6 of 1980 Cup Final, Briere's way offside goal in Game 1 of the 2012 ECQF, to cite two examples -- would not be able to be overturned. Perhaps allowing the Situation Room to directly institute such reviews, with the intent of existing only for reviewing apparently blatant missed calls.
- bmeltzer

It's a game played by humans and officiated by humans. Mistakes happen and I'm actually fine with that.

Besides, far more advantages are given (or not given) by missed penalty calls, or penalty calls that shouldn't have been called, than by missed offside calls. Video review can't be used for everything so singling out the offside call when 99.99%* of all of those calls are made correctly is silly. (*hyperbole but I'm certain that the overwhelming majority of offside calls are made correctly in real time)

Imho the only valid use for video review is in the question of did the puck cross the goal line for a goal.

The problem is the so "close as to be irrelevant calls" that overturn goals but didn't have an impact on whether it was scored. Also, they might want to consider proximity of a defender as the puck/player crosses the line. It's a step in the right direction to have an elevated skate count, but at some point they really need to make this go the way of the foot in the crease rule. If a player's presence alone in the crease wasn't enough to cause a goal, a guy one centimeter over the blue line ahead of the puck shouldn't necessarily be reviewable either. It's all a bit stupid.

Just because the refs missed an extremely obvious offside call doesn’t mean we should do away with the replay review. There’s a whole host of other reasons why that should be the case. But this ones on the refs for missing the easy call.