It's like how Anaheim won their Cup - just commit so many penalties that the refs lower their standards so they don't affect the outcome of the game. It also doesn't help that refs like to even out the calls.
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They just blew the whistle in the Canucks game because Jacob Markstrom lost his skate blade. Somewhere Antti Raanta is screaming WTF.
It's not that easy. You need however many sensors to be able to accurately detect every part of players that could potentially be across the line improperly, so probably on skates and in the puck. I know they should have sensors in the pucks now for the upcoming tracking, but regarding the skates, you still have account for whether it's on the ice as you cannot have the skate in the air above the line and be onside. What happens when the foot is contorted in some strange way unlike regular skating? Do you need a sensor for every dimension and yaw as well?
Cameras and a neural network to read the images could work, but then you run into issues of occluding the image from whomever in front of the camera so how many cameras do you need to account for all angles and possibilities because some angles cannot read height over the ice for example. You could probably combine networks processed by multiple cameras, but I don't know how fast that can all be done. You are trading off accuracy for speed in all likelihood.
Finally, there is going to be an error rate, and knowing fans, if it's ever wrong, oh boy. What's acceptable and are you still going to have the War Room watching over the whole process to account for false alarms and misses? What's the whole point then? Just keep it as a manual review. That doesn't even account for the suggestion to blow the play dead automatically. That needs to be a zero error thing.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I don't think you can get it done in real-time at an acceptable performance anytime soon, especially considering how long it has taken them to get tracking set up, where we're hoping they debut it during the conference finals.
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I don’t want offside plays to be detected more accurately. I really don’t care. I want fewer plays to be offside period. I absolutely hate the time suck, momentum suck, and entertainment suck that offside calls represent. They make hockey boring.
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I hope Antti Raanta has spent the last five hours staring at himself in the mirror and screaming what the f***.
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I might get attacked for this but I rarely see the Leafs get a Ref advantage. They draw the least penalties the League. Marchabd abd Chara could get a penalty on every 2nd shift if called fairly.
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He's been good the whole post-season.
Strome laid out to block a cross-crease pass earlier, and he's had several nice cross-crease passes of his own, one to Cat for a nice, easy goal.
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If Svechnikov Cross checks him in the teeth, no jury in the world would convict him.
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Torts with the perfect post-series presser 
The Coyotes dumped one of the best bottom 6 players in the league for cap space. I miss him.
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The Habs are actually an easy team to like these days. They work their azzes off.
I have watched a few games today. The Kotkaniemi hit was very similar to a Foligno hit today. Guess what Foligno's penalty was??? Not sure it should have been 5 either.
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Kinda wanna see Calgary go on a decent run just to see the stupid contract Treliving/Maloney will give to Talbot.
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