NHL hockey will resume with 56-game season, reasonable offside rule
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Filed under: Video reviews will be a little less torturous, probably. The NHL’s latest announcement for the 2020-21 season carries some significant new specifics, including: Offside will sort of make a little more sense! After absurd video reviews after goals required painstaking, pixelated detail to determine if a skate blade was touching the ice, now they will use painstaking, pixelated detail to determine if a skate has broken the “plane” of the blueline. It’s an improvement...but it could very well be marginal.
For now, at least we can enjoy the fact that we’ll no longer be debating whether that blurry white space is air or ice: Beginning in the 2020-21 regular season, a player’s skate will not have to be in contact with the blue line in order to be on-side. A player is on-side when either of his skates are in contact with the blue line, or on his own side of the line, at the instant the puck completely crosses the leading edge of the blue line. On his own side of the line shall be defined by a “plane” of the blue line which shall extend from the leading edge of the blue line upwards.
Anders said if they were in NY, he would have gone to the house.
For now, at least we can enjoy the fact that we’ll no longer be debating whether that blurry white space is air or ice: Beginning in the 2020-21 regular season, a player’s skate will not have to be in contact with the blue line in order to be on-side. A player is on-side when either of his skates are in contact with the blue line, or on his own side of the line, at the instant the puck completely crosses the leading edge of the blue line. On his own side of the line shall be defined by a “plane” of the blue line which shall extend from the leading edge of the blue line upwards.
Anders said if they were in NY, he would have gone to the house.