Here's a little more on the subject of hockey goal judges.

http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine/article.jsp?content=2007118_51645_51645

Thank you,

Doug Peterson

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>From: Doug Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
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>From: Wayne Smith 
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>Sent: Dec 9, 2013 3:10 AM
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>Cheers, Wayne
>On Dec 7, 2013 8:29 PM, "Wayne Smith" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>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:
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>    "....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.
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>      Tom Rowe
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>      Famous last words of Socrates:  "I drank what!?"
>      On 12/7/2013 1:07 AM, Britton Anderson wrote:
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>      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.
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>        On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Sean
>          Pickett <[log in to unmask]>
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>          The last
>            rules changes in 2012 made goal judges recommended, not
>            required. Hockey East
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>            eliminated them for all regular season games last season.
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>                Sean
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>                On 6 Dec 2013 at 22:49, Sara Fagan wrote:
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>                > I know I heard somewhere that goal judges were
>                being dropped at rinks.
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>                > The announcers at North Dakota mentioned that they
>                don't have goal
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>                > judges anymore.
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>                > Sara
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>                > SLU '77
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>                > Let's go SAINTS!!!
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>                > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Joe Makowiec <[log in to unmask]>
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>                >     At the RPI - Q'pac game at the Field House this
>                evening, they had
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>                >     replaced the goal judges with lights set on the
>                floor. Anybody
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>                >     know whether this was part of an automated
>                system, or whether the
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>                >     goal judge was remote and monitoring the net by
>                camera?
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>                >     Joe
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