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Hockey fans are learning of all the new little rules the NHL is implementing
for the 2013-14 season. There's the new goalie pad regulations, the jersey
tuck rule and one that affects fighting. Beginning this season, players will
be given a two-minute penalty for removing their helmet before a fight. One
bout could equal seven penalty minutes for a player.
[Related: Red Wings' Teemu Pulkkinen faces possible suspension for hit]
Brett Gallant of the New York Islanders and Krys Barch of the New Jersey
Devils found a way around it before their second tilt Thursday night: both
purposely took off the other's helmet.
Every rule has its loophole and Gallant and Barch have found it for this one.
From Rule 46.6:
Helmets - No player may remove his helmet prior to engaging in a fight.
If he should do so, he shall be assessed a two minute minor penalty for
unsportsmanlike conduct. Helmets that come off in the course of and
resulting from the altercation will not result in a penalty to either player.
Because this loophole has now been discovered, it won't be long before there
's yet another rule ensuring that if this situation were to occur again
before a fight, both players will be assessed an unsportsmanlike minor
penalty. Count on it.
Barch and Gallant would end the night with three fights and a game
misconduct for each after the trilogy ended.
UPDATE: Here's what Barch had to say about it after the game, via Tom
Gulitti:
Barch said Gallant requested that because he didn’t want to pick up an
extra two minutes for removing his own helmet prior to a fight – a new rule
this season.
“He was like, ‘You can take my helmet off,’” Barch said. “I was
like, ‘All right. Let’s just take them both off.’ And he was like, ‘I
can’t take the two (minute penalty).’ And I was like, ‘OK, this is
getting pretty embarrassing.’ We’re all men. I was like, ‘This doesn’t
even feel natural.’
“I want to fight off emotion, not off sitting there and having
everything planned.” |
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