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From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
Newsgroups: net.sport,net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: officials watching replays?
Message-ID: <697@godot.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 01:08:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 01:08:55 1985
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Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 


I caught the game which prompted this discussion while home for the
holidays.  For those of you who missed it: with Buffalo leading 1-0, St.
Louis apparently scored.  The goal judge didn't see it, but the replay
clearly showed it was in.  In the subsequent argument, the Blues were
given a bench minor and their coach was ejected.  The Sabres scored on
the power-play, so it was 2-0 rather than 1-1.  Buffalo won 3-2.

I wouldn't mind seeing a minor official added whose job was to observe
the available replays.  His role should probably be that of rendering
opinion only at the request of the referee, when the referee is in
doubt.  Coaches and players could not demand the videoman be consulted,
or things could get very slow.  But it could actually speed things up in
situations like the above.

Talk all you want about bad camera angles, but let's face it, a hockey
goal judge has a terrible angle to begin with.
-- 
--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  ihnp4!godot!bruce, bjn@mit-mc.arpa ... soon to be bruce@tm.arpa