>The committee, which met May 11-14 at Hilton Head, S.C., stressed the
>following situations would be cause for an automatic penalty:
 
>* Holding, picking, or pinching a player excessively against the boards after
>the puck has been played;
 
>* Interference that affects a prime goal-scoring opportunity, and
 
>* Holding an opponent's stick anywhere on the ice.
 
  The NHL also say that they are going to enforce these types of rules
and it only happens for the first 2 weeks of the season!!!
 
 
 
>"When a player's uniform has blood on it (whether it is the player's own blood
>or someone else's blood), the official must stop the game at the earliest
>possible time and make the player leave the game to have the uniform evaluated
>by medical personnel. If the team's medical personnel determine that blood has
>saturated the uniform, the player must change the bloodied part of the
>uniform. If saturation has not occurred, the player may continue to wear the
>uniform.
 
  This is understandable but it's most likely going to make the game
much much longer.
 
 
 
>* Added a new rule (Rule 6-30-f) so that if a player intentionally is pushed
>offside, the offside violation shall be nullified and play will continue.
 
   This is going to be a hard one to determine.