I would say it's pretty logical that they can go from the "goal" back to the last zone entry, which is obvious.
The amount of time between the zone entry to the goal is irrelevant since it gets put back on the clock anyway.
Clearly people will be pissy about it if a team is in the zone for 45 seconds before they score, but people are just as pissy when they get scored on after the other team enters on an offsides. It will be interesting to see how many of these get reviewed on quick entry & "goal" vs spending any real amount of time in zone.
It went against the Sabres this time, but I personally don't have much of an issue with the rule, getting it "right" as long as it doesn't take 5 minutes is fine with me.
They need to clean up the amount of time it takes to review it.
It very much matters to the point I was making. I don't see any reason to lump a blown offsides call with goalie interference for purposes of revenue. Goalie interference directly impacts a goal being scored. It denies the guy tasked with making the save the ability to do so. Gaining the zone offside does no such thing. And the further away in time from the zone entry the goal is scored, the less sense it makes to take the goal away.
Take our goal, which wasn't very long after gaining the zone. The Sens lost two puck battles and Anderson didn't make a save. Any of those three events goes the other way and we probably don't score. To put it another way, simply gaining the zone on a blown offsides helped us score but it doesn't directly lead to a goal or prevent the Sens from stopping us from scoring. Whereas interfering with a goalie without questions impedes the other teams ability to stop a goal from happening.
And please stop with the "its about getting it right". No it isn't. Getting it right would be Toronto reviewing every goal scored's zone entry to make sure it was onside.
To take another thing that has led to goals to make my point. Blown icings have led to goals. Teams have dumped it, officials mistakenly call an icing. On the ensuing face-off the opposition scores right away. Why isn't that reviewable? Teams have lost scoring chances because officials mistakenly blew a play dead as an offsides but it wasn't. Teams have scored goals off set pick plays which are illegal, thats not reviewable either. I think this idea wasn't thought through. The GMs were thinking of the bang bang offside that lead to quick goals. don;t think they had a 30sec cycle in mind when they thought of this rule.
I get the goal interference one and strongly agree with it. Actually that should be reviewed on every single goal by the league.
EDIT: At some point the entertainment value and flow of the game needs to take precedence. A good start would be GM's coming up with ways to increase scoring, not ways to take goals off the board. The league's mentality is ass backwards. I would love to see some research on this but I'm going out on a limb and saying this isn't that big of a problem (goals after a blown offside) as opposed to goalie interference