What types of ideas and changes were proposed and discussed at the CEO meetings? Something upsetting or was it business as usual? — @MrEd315
The general managers are offering a number of recommendations for smaller rule changes, more tweaks to the current rules than anything else. Here is the story about it.
Most important is the expansion of the coach’s challenge rule to include delay of game penalties for pucks fired over the glass and for high-sticking minors that may have been the result of a friendly fire. In each case, it would only be a matter of removing a penalty.
It may appear black or white for pucks fired above the glass; either he passes directly over the glass from the defensive end and it is a penalty, or he touched something (stick, skate, glass) while leaving the play and it is not a penalty. But the gray area is still in the available video. The blue line camera and goalie cameras are in identical locations in each building, so you will always have video proof of potential offside or goalie interference situations, but proof of pucks fired over the glass depends on television cameras which are not identical in each building. So, could there be a problem if tonight the show airs a rerun, but not tomorrow? It’s a consideration, but the general managers decided to move forward with the proposal to add it to the coach’s challenge rule.
This also opens the door to a review of sanctions. Is this a door the NHL wants to open? Where does it stop? Is the next step to start reviewing penalties for tripping? Did you fall on your stick or mine? Cross-checks; Was it just a push or was it more violent? Video review is important, but the NHL doesn’t want the game to bog down because it ruins the entertainment value.
