GAME THREAD / Week 11 / Toronto @ Hamilton

[argolio]

I'm at the point where I'd like to see penalty challenges eliminated. If the official makes a bad call, so be it. I'm used to that, and that bothers me less than a penalty being called or reversed on appeal, even if it helps my team.

I think the Masoli play is a result of the "egregious" standard they put in this year, which seems like a response to the NHL's standard for offside challenges where they called off goals even if a play was an inch offside. The Als got burned by that earlier this year when they caused a fumble right near the goal line but it wasn't reversed because in the league's opinion it wasn't egregious enough (an inch instead of a mile).

[Ron]

I'm at the point where I'd like to see penalty challenges eliminated. If the official makes a bad call, so be it. I'm used to that, and that bothers me less than a penalty being called or reversed on appeal, even if it helps my team.

If they are going to have replay ... then ONLY on scoring plays and turnovers. Nothing else. This allows coaches to keep the challenge in case the refs say a score did not occur and coaches believe it did.

[AngeloV]

If they are going to have replay ... then ONLY on scoring plays and turnovers. Nothing else. This allows coaches to keep the challenge in case the refs say a score did not occur and coaches believe it did.

Agreed, but I will add in or out of bounds to that. I've been saying this for a long time. Illegal contact challenges are the worst of the worst. If they limit it to those 3 categories, there is no need for challenges period, as the eye in the sky should be able to make quick calls on all of those.

[Neely2005]

I'm at the point where I'd like to see penalty challenges eliminated. If the official makes a bad call, so be it. I'm used to that, and that bothers me less than a penalty being called or reversed on appeal, even if it helps my team.

I think the Masoli play is a result of the "egregious" standard they put in this year, which seems like a response to the NHL's standard for offside challenges where they called off goals even if a play was an inch offside. The Als got burned by that earlier this year when they caused a fumble right near the goal line but it wasn't reversed because in the league's opinion it wasn't egregious enough (an inch instead of a mile).

Interestingly enough the NHL has changed their challenge system. Now if the coach challenges and loses not only do they lose their only timeout they also get a 2 minute penalty.