Wild’s Dubnyk latest to question NHL’s video review

Devan Dubnyk isn't a fan of how the NHL reviews challenged goals.

Pulled from Sunday's loss to St. Louis after allowing three goals on 16 shots, the Minnesota Wild goaltender called into how the officials came to a decision on the second - scored by Ryan Reaves - which was challenged based on the view that the Blues were offside.

"It's so offside that both our defensemen stopped playing and all of a sudden they have twice as much room as they would because both our guys stopped playing," Dubnyk said after the game, according to Michael Russo of the Star Tribune. "You have guys on the other bench that are laughing after the goal is called, and I mean, it’s just added to the list of interesting calls on challenges for everywhere around the league this year."

Head coach John Torchetti wasn't using the apparent offside as an excuse.

In Dubnyk's view, the review shouldn't be conducted by the official who already made the call, especially with the technology they'e been equipped with.

"You don’t have the guy on the ice making the call on an iPad that’s four inches big," he continued. "It doesn’t make sense. You got a lot of technology elsewhere that people can have a look at.

"Don't get me wrong, these are the best referees in the world hands down, but you're asking a guy to go look at a video in front of 20,000 people and overturn a call he just made. It doesn't make sense. There's enough technology to go elsewhere for it."

At the end of the day, three pucks got past him, and Dubnyk was a bit more succinct when it came to judging his own performance.

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