Should goaltender interference be reviewable?

The topic of goaltender interference was raised several times today during the media availability for both teams, and Darryl Sutter was asked whether it should be reviewable by video. Sutter answered thoughtfully and rationally – his answer is below – though, off-topic, he did offer a sharp tongue in cheek response when it was suggested that the Kings suffered from an emotional letdown in Game 1. The lack of “scrums” was cited as an example, to which Sutter replied, “the one scrum…that we were called on, it was too bad they couldn’t review it.” He was, of course, referring to the penalty Brandon Bollig drew by falling down backwards following a light Alec Martinez shove. Chicago scored on the ensuing power play.

Back to the topic at hand. Rule 69.1: Interference on the Goalkeeper states “The rule will be enforced exclusively in accordance with the on-ice judgment of the Referee(s), and not by means of video replay or review.”

Darryl, what say you? Should goaltender interference be reviewable after the play?

“As long as it doesn’t hold the game up. Quite honest, I’m really comfortable with the process, the way it works now, where most of it does come from Toronto, unless it’s a definitive call on the ice. If you look at yesterday, by the rule of the book, it is the right call. I mean, whether you like it or not, it is, and the only reason that they’re reviewing it is if it was in before the contact. What is that process? Hey, you’ve come so far in it, I don’t know other than to take it right out of the officials’ hands, which is not what I wanted and I don’t think what anybody wants, and that was the intent of the two referees system, things like that, and give a little bit more power to the linesmen in situations like that so they go and talk about it quick – and that’s what they did. You know, there was a lot of talk, quite honest, this past summer about throwing the flag, but our game is not stop-start. It’s more on the fly, so the more that you pull those situations into it, the more it sort of spaces your game out, and I’m not for that.”