Get It Together
You can go onto the internet and view satellite photos from outerspace. From millions and millions of miles away, I can see my truck parked in my driveway. And it is clearly is "a large vehicle past my gate- in my driveway."
How come they can't have a camera directly above, less that 100 feet from the goal line in hockey games that provides a clear, CONCLUSIVE, view of a puck crossing a goal line?
Technology clearly underutilized!!
The NHL needs to get it together!
3 comments:
Please do not start with the typical Buffalo response. Wah Wah Wah. We got robbed again. Good teams make good things happen.
The real question is why did the Sabs suck for 55 minutes of that game? And how do they get out played by the Rangers in the 2 previous games? And why does a team with so much talent struggle so much on the power play??
I will tell you... Out worked and out hustled. Especially in the corners.
Don't get me wrong, I am for the Sabres 100% here and was very frustrated watching the first 55 minutes of that game.
If THIS team gets by the Rangers the Sens or Devils will eat them alive. They better wake up.
I don't discount anything you said, it is true the Sabres have been sucking. Although they finally showed life after they got that goal and played a successful "dump and crash the net". This is what is going to win them the next few games.
This post is about the inconsistency of the NHL and they way they review plays, the faulty camera work and bad angles. With the crazy advancements in digital photography, they should be able to see if a black object crosses a red line-- even from outerspace!
From today's New York Times:
"There is no mysterious camera," the NHL's director of hockey operations, who made the final decision from a control room in the NHL Toronto office on Henrik Lundqvist's kick save on Daniel Briere, said yesterday. "[The video] becomes blurry when they try to blow it up."
And that view was not definitive, possibly because the NHL has yet to install high-definition cameras for the overhead looks that virtually always are used to determine whether the puck entered the goal. According to Campbell, the league hopes to have those video improvements in place by next season.
"We haven't gone to it sooner because the technology is getting better month by month," Campbell said. "You don't want to buy something that is outmoded right away; there's a lot of rewiring involved.
"We have sent [senior vice president of broadcasting] John Shannon to a show in Las Vegas to look at what's available before we make a multimillion dollar investment in new equipment. I have an estimate on my desk now."
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