NHL to experiment with goal verification line.

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NHL to experiment with goal verification line. 

Post#1 » by hsb » Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:52 pm

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When the Maple Leafs play the Ottawa Senators at the Air Canada Centre Monday — the clubs’s first preseason game — they will be willing guinea pigs testing the NHL’s proposed goal-verification line.

It was a concept introduced at the summer research and development camp — a line the width of the puck behind the red goal-line.

In combination with finer mesh over the net, allowing the overhead camera better view, it’s designed to cut down confusion as to whether a puck actually crosses the line. The line is set back one puck width from the red goal line. If the puck touches the verification line, it’s a goal.

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Re: NHL to experiment with goal verification line. 

Post#2 » by trwi7 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:11 pm

I love this idea. Sometimes the goalie is right on top of the line and it's tough to tell. It doesn't really hurt anything to have the line there.
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Post#3 » by Nolan » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:07 am

Seen this yesterday and i'm all for it. Its going to make things a lot easier.
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Post#4 » by WEFFPIM » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:34 pm

I will reiterate the opinions previously mentioned.
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Post#5 » by ajaX82 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:30 am

Excellent idea

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