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/ > > > > > -- Check out my Alaska Nanooks Hockey Blog at http://nanookhockey.blogspot.com