GDT: G7 | Minnesota @ Washington | 10/27/23 | 7:00p ET | Monumental Sports Network

[SherVaughn30]

They should change the rule around. Puck first in, player 2nd in. Not only that, once the whole puck breaks the plane of the blue line, it should be on-sides! As it is now, having the whole puck needed to fully cross the thickness of the whole blue line is stupid. You could also make the blue line only the width of a whole puck, like it is for the red goal line.

OV's goals has not been the only ones robbed of a goal being disallowed(OV has had 5 in total taken away from being recorded) because off-sides. It's happening far too frequent with almost every team. Too many tiki-tac calls on less than a hair off according to the rules. This off-sides rule/review was not intended this way to take so many goals off the board, but it is. They need to address it! The rules are too complicated and leave too much room for interpretation.

 

[HTFN]

They should change the rule around. Puck first in, player 2nd in. Not only that, once the whole puck breaks the plane of the blue line, it should be on-sides! As it is now, having the whole puck needed to fully cross the thickness of the whole blue line is stupid. You could also make the blue line only the width of a whole puck, like it is for the red goal line.

OV's goals has not been the only ones robbed of a goal being disallowed(OV has had 5 in total taken away from being recorded) because off-sides. It's happening far too frequent with almost every team. Too many tiki-tac calls on less than a hair off according to the rules. This off-sides rule/review was not intended this way to take so many goals off the board, but it is. They need to address it! The rules are too complicated and leave too much room for interpretation.

I mean, I agree that the way they chose to do it is stupid, shouldn't be one plane for in and another for out, it should just be one single plane on whatever side is most convenient.

But there's not actually a lot of room for interpretation here, it's just an overly complicated element of the ice. Everything about the rule and what took the goal away is actually pretty cut and dry if we're being fair, the dumb parts are the way the blue line works and being able to challenge an offside call after exchanged possession with a blue-line keep on an attempted clearance.