NHL could keep closer eye on arena clocks

Authorities within the NHL's situation room will more carefully take notice of the final minute of every duration of each game and can refine the sport-timing process because of the league's analysis right into a pause from the Staples Center clock throughout the Kings' game against Columbus on February. 1. That hesitation added another towards the final period and permitted Came Doughty score the winning goal.

Colin Campbell, the NHL's senior v . p . of hockey procedures, stated Thursday the clock's maker, Daktronics, had examined the time and located "no defects." Younger crowd stated the off-ice crew working that game have been questioned which he was "completely satisfied" using the clock operator, whom he'd not identify.

However, Campbell stated he intends to rotate the crew members' responsibilities "to prevent any ideas there might be difficulties with the time when opposing teams play in the Staples Center."

Off-ice authorities have employment with the NHL and fill such roles as official scorer, penalty box time-keeper and game time-keeper. Throughout National basketball association games in the arena, a tool mounted on a referee's whistle stops the time once the whistle is blown. The time resumes whenever a referee presses a control button on the device worn in the waist.

"We've started numerous steps to make sure there won't be any clock issues in most arenas within the NHL," Campbell stated within an email.

"We're watching all 'last minutes' of every period to make certain you will find no 'blips' or 'pauses' within the last minute within the video cubicles upstairs. Within our new video room in Toronto we currently receive live feeds from the expenses so we're not 'slaved' to TV waiting to ascertain if they reveal the expenses.

"We'll try to bleed the time feed in to the expenses now. We've implemented a couple of other products in to the clock process too to make certain there might be no burps."