I have been checking around and there’s not a lot of newsworthy quotes coming out of the American Hockey Coaches Association convention that was held in Naples, Florida. I was reading this article from the Bangor Daily News and I came across this article. There are some great points of this article.
Larry Mahoney, BDN Staff — Even though this isn’t a rule-change year — the NCAA rule book can only be amended every other year — Bertagna said the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee still can tweak rules or clarify them at their June meeting.
In other news, Bertagna would like to see Hockey East adopt the video review of major penalties conducted in NCAA tournament games for its Hockey East tournament games.
It was used only in the NCAA tournament this past season to assess whether a five-minute major penalty should have included a game misconduct or a game disqualification. A game disqualification carries with it an automatic one-game suspension. A game misconduct doesn’t.
“I think we need to take a second look. I’d hate to see a guy receive a game disqualification and miss the next game when he should have received a game misconduct,” Bertagna said.
Gendron said he would also like video review used to potentially downgrade a five-minute major to a two-minute minor.
“Why not give officials the latitude to change a major to a minor?” Gendron posed.
I have always like the idea of being able to go back and review a call and see if the refs made the right call or not. Currently, the refs can’t reduce a penalty, even if the officials made the wrong call. I think that’s a travesty. It’s also something that needs to be fixed.
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