It's clear NHL officials need more help than they're getting

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After the four officials working Wednesday's Game 3 between the San Jose Sharks and St. Louis Blues missed a clear hand-pass from Timo Meier to Gustav Nyquist before Erik Karlsson's overtime winner (which has compounded a relatively disastrous postseason for the league and its partners), NHL executive VP Colin Campbell asked more questions than he provided concrete answers for in a discussion with Sportsnet's Hockey Central. While Campbell did admit that the referees made the wrong call, he more or less rambled on about the complications the NHL is saddled with as it pertains to video review, rather than offer any real meaningful insight into how the NHL might change a system that is inherently broken, and undermining the most important hockey of the season.

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