Here’s how the NHL can fix its massive review problem

Review everything in overtime

The other option for the NHL is to make all of these calls reviewable in overtime. Sure, it would slow down the game a little but the players would get more rest in the extra periods and the game would likely be faster.

Oh… and they wouldn’t miss a call this bad and BLOW THE ENTIRE GAME.

It’s a play that we may only see once in our lifetime but once is enough to change the rules. It should have never happened, but it did. This is an embarrassing look for the NHL. The best hockey league on Earth just had a conference final playoff game decided on a call that you or I or a trained monkey could have blown down. It was as obvious a hand pass as we’ve ever seen and it happened directly in front of the referee.

St. Louis better get some love from the hockey Gods in game 4 because they were robbed of a very good, very evenly fought game 3 in a dreaded overtime decision we all hoped we wouldn’t ever see. Brayden Schenn and Jordan Binnington, we’re all on the same page.

More reviews is bad. It slows the flow of the game and makes the final two minutes seem like three hours (I see you, NBA) but making everything in overtime reviewable would not kill the flow of the extra period, nor would it bore those watching. Most importantly, it wouldn’t let something this stupid decide a game ever again.

There are holes in all three of these proposed fixes. No solution is perfect but any solution is better than the system that is currently in place. Something has to change in the offseason because there have been too many games decided on bad plays this year alone. Blues, Avalanche and Golden Knights fans would certainly agree.