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Is the NHL strategically going after an Apple sponsorship deal for the official booth review phone of the league? Or was the headset broken? Why was the ref using an iPhone last night in Minnesota?
Here’s what went down, according to the Star Tribune:
Taking this passage from the gamer, but for the second game in a row, a Charlie Coyle-centered line was surging from the outset. Parise could have had a couple goals in the first period. But after Spurgeon cut the deficit to 2-1 37 seconds after a Nick Schmaltz goal, Coyle set up Parise for a tying goal.
But, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville challenged the entry was offside. The review, featuring linesmen Ryan Daisy and Brian Mach, not only took 6 minutes, 10 seconds, there was a technical malfunction and Daisy had to borrow a press-box attendant’s iPhone to talk to the NHL Situation Room in Toronto.
Borrow a press-box attendant’s phone? And they had the number? Or does someone in Toronto give them a number to call? I need to hear more about how all this goes down. Does the press box guy have the number locked in if there’s an emergency? Questions galore.
So that goal review in #Blackhawks #Wild game: took 9274 minutes, ref was talking on an iPhone, was clearly offside yet call stood. Gotcha.
— Pat Shields (@PShieldsSports) February 9, 2017
Do we even know the @nhl was on the other end of that iPhone call or was the ref just checking with his bookie? #CHIvsMIN #NHLonNBC
— Peter Freeby (@pfreeby197) February 9, 2017
