The offside challenge!
Love it or hate it, it appears to be here to stay. Bruins fans have found themselves on the wrong side of several challenges, but have also had a few go there way in recent months.
This year saw a new wrinkle added to the mix: a minor penalty would be given to a team that unsuccessfully challenged an offside call.
This wrinkle has made some teams more hesitant to “throw the red flag,” so to speak, and that hesitation appeared to come back and bite the Bruins tonight.
In the second, the Bruins had a 2-0 lead and were struggling to hold off the surging Caps when Lars Eller cut the lead in half with a fluttering wrister that beat Anton Khudobin from the high slot.