Rumblings: Offside ruling for coach's challenge won't change

The coach's challenge will be on the GMs meeting agenda next Tuesday in Toronto. Glenn James/NHLI/Getty ImagesMany Toronto Maple Leafs fans were up in arms about the Brad Boyes goal being overturned Monday night by a coach’s challenge.

It was indeed offside and the correct call was made on video review. The complaint from some Leaf fans however is that lots of time elapsed between the illegal zone entry and the Dallas Stars had chances to clear the puck before Boyes scored.

This is all true.

But this is also why the rule is as is. For years, the league’s hockey operations staff and the 30 general managers debated and debated and debated how to time the offside review. They could never agree on…