Are Delayed Offsides Challenges Good for the Game?

[x Tame Impala]

Reflecting back on the recent offsides review in Game 5 of the Caps/Canes series where the Capitals scored on a slapshot one timer from the point to take a 2-1 lead in the game. The goal was called back because on the zone entry the Caps skater was offsides by a few millimeters. 20+ seconds went by after the zone entry and a Canes player even touched the puck but the Capitals got it back.

Are these sorts of calls/reviews important for the integrity of the game? There's a real "rules are rules" argument to be had here but as a neutral fan watching that game it seemed like the players being offsides was so close that it was inconsequential to the goal being scored. What we were left with was an annoying delay for the viewer and then seeing a pretty cool goal and a huge goal for the Capitals be called back.

This Caps goal is just one example of many. Do you think it's more important to follow the rules as strictly as possible or is a more "let them play" approach the preferred option?

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

This has been debated an uncountable number of times on this forum.

My personal opinion is that cut and dry things should always be reviewable. If you were offside, regardless of how much times goes by, you entered the zone illegally. I think drawing a line where there’s an actual line is perfectly legitimate.

I think it’s also vital to truly consider the alternative. There are so many angles and replays available nowadays that the outrage will be ever present if goals are allowed that are later discovered to have come after an illegal zone entry. Simply finding it annoying that goals get called back after the fact because it is discovered the play was offside is a terrible reason to eliminate the rule.

I long ago accepted this as part of the game nowadays. I see no reason to change it back considering we’d probably even more people going apeshit.

 

[Prairie Habs]

A million things get missed every game, the fact something as minor as a guy bring a millimeter offside is challengable but so many more impactful things aren't is crazy. Review was brought in to correct immediately apparent and egregious mistakes, not to have guys in a war room counting pixels to try and get a cheap leg up.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

If we're going to have offside review, making it a black and white distinction is far better than asking the refs or the war room to determine whether the missed offside was material to the goal or not. There's a bit of subjectivity in goalie interference, after all, and that's a complete clusterf***

 

[Coffee]

first two periods let them play