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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