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: Wayne Smith
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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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> > 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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> > Joe Makowiec can be reached at:
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