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Everyone has been asking for it and here it is. The full shootout video from the Coyotes/Kings 2-1 shootout win in Los Angeles this past Wednesday.
Coyotes/Kings – Why all the Kings/NHL armchair referees got the controversial Hanzal goal call wrong
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Over the course of the past few days, there’s been lots of talk about the second period goal that Phoenix Coyotes forward Martin Hanzal scored on the Los Angeles Kings (the video of the goal is at the bottom of the article) at the Staples Center Thursday night. (This goal was scored at the 8:48 mark of the second period of the Coyotes/Kings game.)
For those of you who watched the Kings broadcast team go on and on about this call and for those of you who disagreed with this call didn’t understand why the ‘Good Goal’ call stood after video review.
I’ve been reading tons of feedback from fans and armchair referees across the NHL who posted pictures and opinions about how they thought the goal should not have counted.
The thing is that none of them didn’t seem to have ever read the NHL rule book.
The controversy surrounding the call wasn’t ever a question of whether it was a good goal or not (I didn’t think it was). The final ‘Good Goal’ call was made based on the wording of the NHL rulebook.
38.5 – Logistics and Equipment
“The Video Goal Judge shall have access to all replays that may be available by reason of any telecasts of the game and if there is no scheduled telecast the Club’s internal telecast of the game will be used.”
This means the Video Goal Judge has only the TV feeds available, in this case the Kings TV feed, to make their decision.
Since the call on the ice (by all four officials) was a ‘Good Goal’, the Video Goal Judge has to find overwhelming (100%) evidence in the Kings TV video feeds to overturn the goal. Since the Kings TV feeds didn’t have clear shots from good angles to overturn the call on the ice. The Video Goal Judge’s final ruling was to go with the call on the ice, a Good Goal.
In short, when it comes to overturning calls like this there has to be 100% evidence in the video feeds provided to overturn the call which there wasn’t.
If teams have problems with the lack of video goal review calls going their way on home ice, a simple remedy is to add more cameras to their arena.
Those are the rules in the NHL folks.
Video of the controversial goal by Martin Hanzal:
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The Phoenix Coyotes battle the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Puck drops at 8:30 PM Arizona time on Fox Sports Arizona Plus. - |
