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New hockey season, new official hockey guidelines.
The 2023-24 NHL Rulebook would not have any main adjustments from the 2022-23 version, however listed here are two notable tweaks that made it into the official rule e book this yr, as first reported by Scouting the Refs.
In case your crew was harm by a missed puck-in-the netting name previous to final season, we now have excellent news— except you dislike coach’s challenges, by which case, prepare for extra pauses in play.
A coach’s skill to problem a puck-in-the netting name now formally extends to any puck put above the glass earlier than scoring a aim, regardless of which crew made the final play.
This rule was already being utilized throughout the 2022-23 season, Scouting the Refs famous.
The earlier play stoppage rule said that challenges may solely be instituted for missed stoppages “attributable to the attacking crew.” The change is in daring under, per Scouting the Refs:
Rule 38.2 (b): A play that ends in a “GOAL” name on the ice the place the defending crew claims that the play ought to have been stopped by purpose of any play occurring within the offensive zone that ought to have resulted in a play stoppage attributable to the attacking crew however didn’t. The one exception to this provision is when the puck strikes the spectator netting attributable to both crew and goes unnoticed by the on-ice officers.
Scouting the Refs additionally reported a change in wording on the rule relating to how gamers leaving the ice for a line change should fully enter the bench to ensure that their crew to totally clear the zone throughout a delayed offside.
That rule was already in impact, as Colorado Avalanche followers will keep in mind from 4 years in the past, when the rule was utilized on a coach’s problem.
In Sport 7 of the 2019 second spherical, the San Jose Sharks efficiently challenged a aim for being offsides as a result of Gabriel Landeskog was nonetheless on the ice on the opposite aspect of the blue line as he ready to enter the bench following a line change.
The Sharks ended up eliminating the Avalanche with a 3-2 win.
Scouting the Refs cited the delayed offsides rule in explaining the decision.
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Rule 83.3, relating to offside on line adjustments: pic.twitter.com/omlxpSVfkS
Now, that delayed offsides rule has been reworded to the textual content under, per Scouting the Refs. The NHL rulebook clarified “fully off the ice” by altering the phrase to specify the requirement is that “each skates are off the ice.”
Rule 83.1: If, throughout a delayed off-side, an attacking participant within the attacking zone elects to proceed to his gamers’ bench (which extends into the attacking zone) to get replaced by a teammate, he shall be thought of to have cleared the zone when each skates are off the ice and the Linesperson judges him to have left the taking part in floor.
Hockey followers have already seen each of those rule adjustments in motion, however now they’re official simply in time for the season to begin Tuesday.
