Goal Review

I actually know one of the alternates (there’s a full time goal judge and alternates who help out, effectively having 2 people in the booth at all times), and got to go into the booth in between periods last season. There are 4 HD feeds (both overhead goal shots, in house feed, and tv feed … there’s even another black and white feed that can be used), and all have frame by frame dvr hard drives. While the “final call” on goal/no goal reviews comes from Toronto, the in house goal judges are on the phone with them the whole time … adding whatever they see to the conversation or sometimes starting the conversation in the first place.

They actually use the “review room” for much more than just reviews though. Every goal that is scored is reviewed in one way, shape or form. Every goal is checked to make sure it crossed the line (even in situations that are obvious), that there’s time remaining on the clock (again even in situations that are obvious), and goals/assists can even been credited to different players by what the in-house goal judges sees during these “reviews”.

All in all, it was a pretty neat experience to see what goes on up there … plus they have a pretty sweet view of the action. Hope this helps.

Nifty. Always like behind-the-scenes. Thanks Jonny!

As an aside … the review booth is literally 4 or 5 feet from a row of seats, in the upper deck. I’ve been told that fans actually turn around and look into the booth during reviews … sometimes adding “what they saw” too lol.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheFaceOffHockeyRadioShow/~5/-eeze-MZNkU/faceoff040809.mp3

Ben was actually on the FaceOff Hockey Show (plug for the show I’m a host for), and he talks about all this stuff. It starts around the 16 minute mark. The link should open up Windows Media.

I don’t think the top link works … but our feedburner link seems to work, and it’s the April 8th show.