The NHL introduced on Wednesday a sequence of rule adjustments for the upcoming season. These rule adjustments have been unanimously accepted by the NHL’s board of governors, common managers and competitors committee.
4 rule adjustments have been accepted for the 2024-25 season:
- A coach’s problem will now be capable of take away a penalty for a puck out of play. The problem solely applies to delay of sport penalties when it’s deflected off a participant, stick, glass or boards. It can’t apply in a scenario by which a judgment name was made in how the puck went out of play. The NHL specified this as “batted pucks or if the puck was shot out from the defensive zone.” If a problem fails, a two-minute minor is assessed to the difficult workforce along with the already present penalty.
- An adjustment was made to the rule concerning line adjustments after the dislodging of the online. The defensive workforce can’t make a line change if the goalie unintentionally dislodges the online. Earlier than, the rule solely utilized to skaters.
- After an icing name, the offensive participant will now additionally obtain one warning for faceoff violations. It’s the identical because the rule for defensive gamers.
- Groups will now be issued one warning for gamers sitting on the boards; the opposite workforce may also be suggested. The workforce that acquired the warning will get a bench minor penalty for future violations.
The league implied that the wording on this launch just isn’t closing. They added that NHL Hockey Operations will work on the precise language for the rule guide over the approaching weeks.
