Jack Drury scored a goal that would have put Carolina up 2-0 in Game Two of the Eastern Conference Final. It was called back on an offside review. Assumptions may tell us the puck did exit the zone, but should that be enough to definitively overturn an official’s call on the ice?
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the puck won't just magically stop in the middle of the air
tit for tat at that point , i guess they are thinking up there ?
Offsides all day.
For those who will scream the NHL needs puck-tracking tech so we know where the damned thing is at all times to avoid situations just like this, I'm here to tell you that tech does not exist. There is no commercially available GPS-like system that is accurate enough to track an object as small as a puck with the level of accuracy required (millimeters or inches), and certainly not in three planes (X, Y, and Z axis, or length, width and height). Certainly not one that is economically sensible for such limited uses (offsides, did the puck cross the goal line, was it played by a high stick?), and which would not require some (relatively minor) reconstruction of arenas to accommodate the tech.
I work for IBM, incidentally. We do this crap for a living.