Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!godot!bruce 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 Article-I.D.: godot.697 Posted: Fri Jan 4 01:08:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 08:13:18 EST References: <359@busch.UUCP> <2088@uw-june> <362@busch.UUCP> <2093@uw-june> Reply-To: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.sport:357 net.sport.hockey:345 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