This season, the NHL is implementing three new rules, and today, the league decided to explain those new rules in an informative video.
The first rule change has to do with delay of game penalties. Now, those kinds of penalties can be challenged by coaches. Delay of game has always been controversial and sometimes, it is a true judgment call. Now, with technology the way it is, there is no excuse for the referees to get it wrong.
‘This only will apply to delay of game penalties when the puck is determined to have deflected off a player, stick, glass or boards, and not on a judgment call on how the puck left the defensive zone (e.g., batted pucks or if the puck was shot out from the defensive zone). In the event of a failed challenge, another two-minute minor penalty will be assessed (in addition to the existing delay of game penalty).’
