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The first leg of the semi-final may have come and gone but the future of the experimental (how absurd to experiment in such a game!) video review remains a worry. Some say the commentators said there was no whistle. I thought they said they didn’t hear it. Subtle difference. Given where they are and the kit they wear over their ears this would not be surprising. Other people including on this forum say they heard the whistle. I can’t remember if I heard it or not. I just knew the game was stopped. One of our players had stripeys all over him on the ice and a striped hand went to a mouth. I don’t think the stripey wanted his dummy.
Now we need to know what the remote EIHL officials saw and heard. My guess (and admittedly it is no more than an educated guess) is that if the review had been left to the on ice officials they would have not allowed the goal after play had been stopped. It was absolutely clear that Fox knew this. I have never seen him so totally infuriated. My guess again is that the remote officials did not get all the information they needed. At the very least the future of this clearly awful system must be reviewed. Have we heard about it? Not as far as I know. Our game and fans deserve better.

I can’t disagree with any of that Bryan.

I was shocked play wasn’t stopped for the Busch- Saucerman incident and even more that Donaghy was allowed to get away Scott free with the cross check on Saucerman as he was standing over Busch.

It certainly seemed to be handled very unusually, which is surely worthy of review.

Agree with everything Bryan just said and just to add, there was 100% a whistle, go ask everyone that got up to go to the concourse level as it blew...

Jayboy

I wasn't at the game but on webcast I couldn't hear a whistle, but then that's not always unusual.

If that's the footage that went to the remote refs, they probably wouldn't have heard it.

The daft thing is, is there is a rule in roller (and I'm pretty sure it's the same in ice), that the ref doesn't have to blow the whistle to consider the play dead at that moment. There's an 'intention to blow ' clause for chaotic situations or if player accidentally collides with the ref as he's about to blow the whistle. You still need to then blow it, but you can bring the game back to the point you intended to blow.

Refs messed this one up, but it's a unique situation which isn't all that common. The mistake can easily happen but it's incredibly frustrating.