NEW YORK \u2014 The NHL has sent a memo to its teams about a rule that requires certain players to wear helmets in pregame warmups.<\/p>\n
The memo was sent to all 32 clubs on Tuesday night. All players who debuted in the 2019-20 season or later are required to wear helmets during warmups.<\/p>\n
Within the past few days, Ottawa and New Jersey were in violation of Rule 9.6, which went into effect in 2022. The Senators, playing at Vegas, were hoping to end a losing streak at T-Mobile Arena, while the Devils were celebrating defenseman Brenden Dillon\u2019s 1,000th game.<\/p>\n
Neither team was expected to be punished beyond a warning.<\/p>\n
Players who have been in the NHL since before 2019 are grandfathered into being able to choose whether to go helmet-less. The league has also barred players from continuing to play without a helmet during games and prevented them from removing the head protection before fighting.<\/p>\n
Injuries have happened during warmups from falls or errant pucks, including Taylor Hall getting cut by a skate in 2012.<\/p>\n
Visors on helmets were agreed to by the league and the NHLPA in 2013, also grandfathered. Four players remain without one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The NHL has sent a memo to its teams about a rule that requires certain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}