Tampa Bay Lightning mentor Jon Cooper doubtful of NHL video survey framework
Tampa Bay Lightning mentor Jon Cooper doubtful of NHL video survey framework
TAMPA – – Jon Cooper of the Tampa Bay Lightning doesn’t know whether mentors ought to be the ones to challenge objectives under the NHL’s video survey framework.
“I’m a devotee – – and I couldn’t say whether I’m in that frame of mind on this – – yet I couldn’t say whether that ought to be in our grasp,” Cooper said after Tampa Bay’s 6-2 dominate in Match 3 of the Stanley Cup Final that cut the Colorado Avalanche’s series lead to 2-1. “Assuming it’s either onside or offside, I simply don’t have the foggiest idea why I need to pursue that choice when the stakes are this high.”
On Monday night, the Lightning effectively tested a first-period objective by Colorado winger Valeri Nichushkin. It was upset after video replays showed that Avalanche defenseman Bowen Byram moved the puck outside the going after zone and afterward back over the blue line, making it be offside.
The Lightning seat didn’t promptly flag for a mentor’s test and there was huge deferral as they watched various points at the seat.
“It was presumably multiple times the length we regularly get,” said Colorado mentor Jared Bednar.
Torrential slide winger Mikko Rantanen said “it’s sort of intense” that the defer occurred after the objective.
“I don’t think the [linesman] can drop the puck assuming no one is there,” said Rantanen. “I surmise he can, yet it’s never worked out. Great job by them, pausing, pausing and it was offside to ensure it. Bravo.”
Cooper sounded as disappointed as his adversaries after the game.
“Here is the issue, and I’ve expressed this previously,” he said. “We’re helpless before the replays we get. So someone could turn off something up top, we can have no replays and something a high contrast call may be missed.”
At the point when inquired as to why the Lightning seat took such a long time to settle on a test, Cooper noticed how long it required for the on-ice authorities to eventually settle on the decision to upset the objective.
“That is the manner by which close it was,” he said. “I don’t have any idea the number of points they that checked out yet it probably been a bundle for it to take that long. At the end a point came in. It was an end zone point and I don’t have the foggiest idea where we got it from. The folks inside couldn’t figure out whether it was white [ice] or on the other hand in the event that it was grainy. Furthermore, I said, ‘All things considered, we should go with the white.'”
In the event that the Lightning had flopped on their test, in addition to the fact that the Avalanche have driven would 1-0 yet their strong strategic maneuver would have been allowed an opportunity to broaden the lead.
Cooper said he comprehends the reason why the video survey rule is set up. Yet, under the ongoing framework, he expressed, on the off chance that there’s an issue with a video feed or an error on the screen it very well may be hazardous.
“You’re under a period requirement,” he said. “It tends to be intense. We pulled off it this evening luckily. Eventually, everybody needs to get the call right, and the right call was offside. However, it tends to be a little nerve-wracking. In some cases I wished we didn’t need to settle on that decision. In any case, it ended up working.”
