Replay in sports is an unchecked monster. It has all but murdered spontaneous celebration, sometimes fails to correct bad calls and often leads to brain-melting analysis as we comb through super slo-mo clips.
That’s the negative view, anyway, and I’m quite partial to it, if for no other reason than to preserve my sanity.
I nearly committed myself in the aftermath of the Patric Hornqvist goal/no-goal/goal/no-goal nightmare Sunday.
My God. What have we done? I thought NBC showed an eminently clear shot of a black hockey puck sitting beyond a red goal line with a patch of white ice in between the two.