How is it antiquated? Such a bizarre argument completely devoid of any rationale.
NFL you have to snap the ball for every play... Be like the NFL ? huh Release the puck vs puck crosses line ... idiotic suggestion.. unbelievable
To become a more modern game? To create the opportunity for iconic buzzer-beating moments to transpire? To create "water-cooler" moments for the casual sports fan to discuss? Because it ultimately makes more sense than the archaic standard of the scoring play having to be fully completed for it to count just...because. I already mentioned how it could impact late-game set plays from faceoffs, odd-man rushes/breakaways at the end of periods/games, etc. It's not a change that's going to result in 100s more goals or something.
Why is release more iconic than crossing the line, how is emulating NFL, soccer or basketball more modern?
As opposed to hockey players who immediately stop playing at the exact moment there's 0s on the clock? Come on, you know that's bullshit.
What does that have to do with whether the NHL starts counting attempts before the buzzer or the puck fully crossing the line? There should be some outlines to the rule, obviously. Like the final attempt at the puck needs to happen before time runs out but once it's been sent towards the net it should still be live play until the puck is stopped or the play is dead, in all the same ways we currently have. Puck hits a guy and never makes it to the net? Play is dead. What if you had a player on a breakaway with 3 seconds left and they released the puck before the time expired but it went in after the game clock was 0? That's not a goal just because? The player stopped making an attempt to score before time expired. Why is the delineation in that scenario that the puck went in after time had expired as opposed to when the player stopped making the attempt to score?
I don't understand the point you're making. Are you saying the league doesn't have sufficient cameras around the rink to determine if the puck was released before or after the game clock expired? If that's the only issue, it seems like a pretty simple fix.
And yet there are many famous plays in the NFL where someone scores after the clock has run out. And there are many famous goals in soccer during added time, a completely arbitrary amount of time given after the official game time has ended. I'm offering an alternative that's crystal clear and can't be abused. The final scoring attempt needs to be made before the clock expires. It's not going to result in an avalanche of additional goals but it can change the tactics of late-game faceoffs, breakaways or odd-man rushes near the end of periods/games, etc.
This is bullshit and you know it. Players don't hear the buzzer and immediately stop playing, like a switch has been turned off. You saw it last night against Detroit. Every guy on the ice was still playing after the time had expired. Every single guy. Hell, most/all of them didn't hear the buzzer or see the time had expired.
Now the NHL can't figure out how to shoot the entire ice surface...
The only pitfall you're outlining is the archaic "this is how it's always been done" kind.
We've literally seen it happen, guys ease up at the whistle all the time.
It's not hard to understand, there's a difference between a football play starting and letting the play run, or a ball in the air where nobody can legally prevent it from scoring, or a soccer ref not blowing the final whistle to allow for injury time, and a buzzer going off before a goal. Football and soccer have their systems because the clock continues between plays, basketball because once the ball passes the block, there is no legal way to prevent the basket, so player behaviour no longer matters.
It's not a simple fix, the puck is on the ice with ten 200 pd guys obstructing camera views moving around at 24 mph and your asking for an unobstructed view of the puck from every spot on the ice at any given time, like, use some common sense.
Of course its a simple fix. Just like stripping the Brady of the C would be. Come on now.
It's such a myopic argument because it just changes the moment the buzzer beater happens. If Jordan and the bulls were playing in a league when the ball has to be through the hoop to count, the play is changed to get a shot off quicker. Behaviour changes according to the rules, change the rules and you don't see the play evolve in the same way, maybe we get some different iconic moment instead.
I think Green does not want to hurt some 1st, 2nd & 3rd line player feelings.
Obviously, you're just a fan.
And yet you saw it, with your own eyes, at the end of last night's game.
Come on lol...now the NHL can't keep track of where the puck is??? Are you guys for real? Is this an actual argument someone is making for why this change can't be made? This reason is so stupid I can't believe you're actually using it. Magic disappearing puck means we can't tell if the puck was released from a stick before time expired and went in to the net without any additional shot attempts.
There are several arguments available as to why its a stupid idea, not just one. Don't flatter yourself.
We can't even do it consistently at two static lines, we get obstructed views at the goal line and at the blue line on reviews. Just such a stupid idea I have no idea why you are fighting so hard for this...
I think you'd welcome a lot more controversy with the release time of the puck vs crossing the goal line given the introduction of a much wider span of ice to hope you have a good precise camera angle on vs the goal line which is stationary and already has the camera and is in use for just counting a goal at all times.
Because the myriad of reasons for why we can't do it are:
All of those things make sense. Buzzer beater off of a shot in hockey does not.
