Duthie-ism.

Thanks to Q-girl from "Of Moose and Men" for sending me this one. I somehow missed this absolute Duthie gem.


"Forget the Glow-Puck. What we need is the Glow Puckbunny. Whenever Elisha Cuthbert is present in an NHL arena, she will automatically illuminate so as to be easily located by television cameras -- and young defencemen."

If you can make a puck glow you can figure out if it passed the goal line.

Martin Biron just greased a goal away from the Pittsburgh Penguins. The puck redirected off of Hatcher's face (yes, his face) and into the net. Except as it was passing the line, Biron put his glove over the puck. It was very obvious to the entire audience that the puck did cross the line, but just as it did, the camera view was obscured by the glove of Biron.

I make my case again for goal line, chip-in-the-puck technology. The technology for having a chip inside of the puck already exists (see: stupid yanks need black puck on white surface to glow to increase contrast). Also, soccer has been testing various goal line sensors for a few years now and it appears to be advanced enough to be working. So my question is, with goaltenders gloves as large as they are, why are we relying on cameras to see through them?

It was a goal.