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From: Wayne Smith 

Sent: Dec 9, 2013 3:10 AM

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Subject: Re: No goal judges?



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Cheers, Wayne
On Dec 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Wayne Smith" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Maine still has goal judges, but I don't know why. Useless. The military had a name for such a position but I've forgotten it :-(
I can recall only one time when a goal judge was important to a game, and I'm no longer sure that he (well,  I) was right. 
Cheers, Wayne
On Dec 7, 2013 2:27 PM, "Tom" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



  
    
  
  
    "....neglected a goal judges booth."  
      At last, an explanation that makes sense!  The truth is refs
      almost never listen to goal judges anyway, preferring to believe
      their own eyes.  But the idea of having reviewable video from an
      under the crossbar video is a good one.  Technology has become so
      advanced and inexpensive there really is no reason not to require
      all arenas to have them.

      

      Tom Rowe

      Famous last words of Socrates:  "I drank what!?"
      On 12/7/2013 1:07 AM, Britton Anderson wrote:

    
    
      They're not even called goal judges any more -- Red
        Light Illuminators are their official titles. Rinks are still
        required to have the lights, but not required to have someone
        sitting there. They can have them triggered remotely. A rule
        mostly lobbied for by Notre Dame when they built their new rink
        and neglected a goal judges booth in the bleacher student
        section.
        
          

        
        

        
      
      

        

        On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Sean
          Pickett <[log in to unmask]>
          wrote:

          The last
            rules changes in 2012 made goal judges recommended, not
            required. Hockey East

            eliminated them for all regular season games last season.

            

                Sean

              
            
              

                On 6 Dec 2013 at 22:49, Sara Fagan wrote:

                

                >

                > I know I heard somewhere that goal judges were
                being dropped at rinks.

                > The announcers at North Dakota mentioned that they
                don't have goal

                > judges anymore.

                >

                > Sara

                > SLU '77

                > Let's go SAINTS!!!

                >

                >

                >

                > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Joe Makowiec <[log in to unmask]>

                > wrote:

                >     At the RPI - Q'pac game at the Field House this
                evening, they had

                >     replaced the goal judges with lights set on the
                floor. Anybody

                >     know whether this was part of an automated
                system, or whether the

                >     goal judge was remote and monitoring the net by
                camera?

                >

                >     Joe

                >     --

                >     Joe Makowiec can be reached at:

                >     http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

                >     http://makowiec.org/

                >

                >

              
            
          
        
        

        

        

        
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