VIDEO: The NHL must adopt a Coach’s Challenge.

There have always been questionable calls in every season since the existence of the NHL. However, there have been some glaringly bad calls made by official this to date in 2014-2015. Most recently in Wednesday night's matchup between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins where a clearing attempt ricochets off of the glove of a Leafs player sitting on the bench. The play should be whistled dead, but instead the play carries on and Phil Kessel scores the game's opening goal seconds later. This was just the most recent example, as there have been multiple plays that have to be called into question. Such as this high stick just a week earlier on the Detroit Red Wings Danny Dekeyser. Or this horrible phantom penalty call a week before that. That call was so bad it prompted Red Wings coach Mike Babcock to ask Pierre Mcguire about the replay. The NHL has begun discussions on instituting a Coaches Challenge in the game. I for one never enjoy when there are changes to the game, but his one seems necessary at this point. The NFL has had a Coaches Challenge in place for years now, and it has been immensely successful. In the NFL, if a Coaches Challenge does not overturn the call on the field the team is penalized one timeout. Now since in the NHL coaches are only allowed one timeout per game, it is not farfetched to imagine the challenge could work the very same way in the NHL. Coaches would be limited to one challenge a game and if after the challenge the call on the ice remains the same, that team is left without a timeout for the rest of the game. Tomorrow NHL GM's will look at "problematic calls" and decide which plays (if any) would be allowed to be reviewed with a challenge. The process advances but they are far from changing rules yet.