I agree with you mick...I would have let the player back in without the team having to use a time-out.
Also, I would have let the player have a new lens put in if, as you said, it was done "immediately".
Maybe we feel this is somewhat of an amends to the player not getting a call for getting poked in the face, which rarely gets called anyway. (In fact, had a no call last night where a player got a finger in the eye.)
Having said that...could we treat the contact lenses the same as player's equipment?
Would we allow a player to replace a ripped shoe?
A torn jersey? Without getting a substitute to replace the player while he replaced his equipment?
Dude
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