The NHL’s latest announcement for the 2020-21 season carries some significant new specifics, including: Offside will sort of make a little more sense! Kind of.
After absurd video reviews after goals required painstaking, pixelated detail to determine if a skate blade was touching the ice, now they will use painstaking, pixelated detail to determine if a skate has broken the “plane” of the blueline.
It’s an improvement...but it could very well be marginal. Many others have proposed far more reasonable solutions to the Great HD-Camera-Induced Offside Dilemma (Remember: The purpose of the rule is to avoid cherry-picking, not to delineate millimeter-length advantages that aren’t advantages), but those changes, like the long-obvious 2005 elimination of obstruction, are for some later year.