TORONTO - Kris King had his focus trained on the left side of a wall of screens.

A crease pileup involving a mass of hockey-playing humanity was taking place in one of that night's NHL games.

The league's executive vice-president of hockey operations and his colleagues inside its situation room were scanning replays of events hundreds of kilometres away to see if the sequence might be subject to a coach's challenge or video review.

There wouldn't be a call from the timekeeper's bench to downtown Toronto this time. But if there had been, the state-of-the art, reimagined replay nerve centre and its staff would have been ready.

"The ability to manage the games from here is better than it's ever been," King said in an office tower adjacent to Scotiabank Arena overlooking Union Station. "We

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