I think they should have some infractions which aren't the dangerous kind like a hook, hold, too many men etc... labeled as something that goes away during replayed time. Have anything like a crosscheck, board or slash as a safety penalty and thus enforced
Exactly. Why does everyone jump to the ridiculous two-handed smash in someone's face that happens like once a season at best.
The rule requires referee discretion, which of course is stupid and adds even more stupidity to the offsides challenge. Considering the precedent from what was called today, if a team heads in on an odd man break but is offsides, and a defender takes a stick penalty to prevent a goal but they score anyways, then the goal gets disallowed from the review and the penalty stands? That's stupid. The penalty was caused by trying to prevent a play that was negated by a challenge. The penalty should go with it.
And yes, let's appease the people that will go to the extreme edge case. If someone takes off their skate and tries to stab someone, that would be seen as an excessive non-hockey play and should be called regardless.
So, we are left with giving more gray area to the rule for refs to mess up. Bottom line is, get rid of this dumb challenge rule. Maybe allow an official scorer to call it off for something egregious like the Duchene play, which rarely ever happens. None of this skate was a millimeter off the ice crap.