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NHL Officially Approves Rule Change For Offside Challenge

September 27, 2017 at 2:22 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 5 Comments

The NHL’s Board of Governors officially approved the rule change to asses a minor penalty to any team who challenges an offside unsuccessfully. The coach will no longer require his timeout to make the challenge, but risks putting his team down a man for two minutes should he be incorrect. The offside challenge still must occur only after a goal has been scored.

While this will certainly reduce the number of challenges this season—something that fans and coaches alike can get behind—there were countless instances last year where it wasn’t obviously clear whether the player was onside or not. Those close calls will be tough to challenge as a coach, as you could both allow a goal and put your team at a disadvantage directly afterwards. Hopefully this will make only the most egregious mistakes stop the game for the referees to confirm or overturn the call.

One may worry though, that since linesmen seemed to blow fewer plays dead last year for offside knowing that they could always go back and check, it could result in goals that shouldn’t have been allowed under normal circumstances but are still too close to risk challenging. Remember, if it is blown offside but in fact shouldn’t have been, there is no way to challenge anyway.

Other than the minutia of whether or not a play is blown dead, this likely will accomplish the goal for the league of reducing the amount of lengthy delays during an NHL game. Several times last year reviews took close to ten minutes, completely changing the flow of the game and allowing viewers at home to click off to other programming. As baseball has instituted recently with the manager’s clock, review mechanics only work if they’re done in a timely fashion; otherwise, the benefit of “getting the call right” is far outweighed by the frustration of waiting for a decision to be made.

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  1. Steve Skorupski

    8 years ago

    Gavin. Do you know how many owners were involved with getting this rule to the point of the Board of Governor’s voting on it. Man, keep up the outstanding information that you always seem to share with the rest of us. I live in northern Michigan & just getting Red Wing information is so tough, let alone information about the rest of the league? Thank you Brother & keep the information coming because I can never get enough.

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    • Steve Skorupski

      8 years ago

      * ? should be .

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      • Steve Skorupski

        8 years ago

        I wish that someone could answer this question for me. Thanks.

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    • Zach Leach

      8 years ago

      Hey PK,

      I looked around for you and, as far as I can tell, this information isn’t available. There’s been nothing reported about specifically who did and didn’t support the move or the numbers needed. The NHL tends to not be as outspoken as say the NFL when it comes to individual owners and their supports of league legislation and operations. With that said, there has pretty much been no push back from this ruling. It seems like changing offside procedures was nearly unanimous across the league.

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      • Steve Skorupski

        8 years ago

        Zach. Thanks so much for at least trying to find this out for me. Again, Brother, I appreciate your time and consideration in trying to get this information for me. I also appreciate the hard work that all of you do trying to keep us informed about the greatest sport on the planet.

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