>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.