Well this is is a first. FSN Pittsburgh is in some hot water with the NHL for its actions during a Flyers-Pens game last week, and it's all because they didn't provide officials with every replay angle during a shorthanded attempt by Simon Gagne. Via Philly.com....

The NHL yesterday said it was investigating why the Pittsburgh Penguins' TV-rights holder withheld from replay officials a videotape that showed the Flyers' Simon Gagne scoring a shorthanded goal against the host Penguins last Thursday.

"At the heart of the matter is the integrity of the system," said Gary Meagher, the NHL's senior vice president of public relations.

Gagne appeared to score on a second-period shot that goalie Brent Johnson smothered and carried into the net. It would have given the Flyers a 6-3 lead with 2 minutes, 53 seconds left in the second period.

The play was reviewed, and officials in Toronto said replays were inconclusive and did not count the goal.

A few minutes later, FSN in Pittsburgh gave its viewers a replay that showed the puck across the goal line. The NHL said that replay was not sent to its review team in Toronto until after the puck was dropped following the review. Once the puck is dropped, the ruling cannot be reversed, the NHL said.

"The league is investigating why we didn't get all angles of the replay," Meagher said.

The MLB Network has come up with yet another interesting idea. During the debut of Thursday Night Baseball, they will begin show a series of vignettes that will attempt to recreate great moments in Baseball History. The plan is to take the existing clips and edit them to show how the event would look with the camera angles of today.

Here's a look at the first one, which is of Bob Gibson's seventeen strikeouts during the 1968 World Series....

With all of the cameras and different angles that TV provide you during a game these days you usually only take notice of a channel not giving you a replay rather than when they actually do give you a good view of a play. Well this past Friday's shot of Kevin Youklis' ball spinning on top of the fence after Johnny Damon crashed into the wall was one of those rare occasions where you marvel at outstanding replay work. Here is the play and an interview with the producer in the NY Post....

"Frank Lombardo, left field camera; the ball was hit right at him. He was upset because he thought he lost the ball on us. But we had it. There it was, just sitting on top of the fence.

"Keith Desantis gave us that super slo-mo of it. He shoots up the third base line from behind home plate. Vinnie Scaffidi on the high, first base camera; he had Damon and the ball in the shot the whole time, and then he had that fan pointing to it as it fell off the wall."

And with all that, YES was able to show that Damon was hurt and then provide a close-up of Youkilis standing on third, looking out toward left, appearing mystified as to what had just gone on out there.

From YES's booth, Al Leiter, as he watched what Moore's guys had captured, simply said, "Never seen anything like that." Michael Kay added all that was left to say: "That's unbelievable." Both spoke softly, as if they were still more amazed than excited.