{"id":322861,"date":"2025-12-03T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322861\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:47:17","slug":"nhl-sends-memo-about-wearing-helmets-in-pregame-warmups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322861\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL sends memo about wearing helmets in pregame warmups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Within the past few days, Ottawa and New Jersey were in violation of Rule 9.6, which went onto 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brenden-dillon\/8475455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/brenden-dillon\/8475455\" target=\"_blank\">Brenden Dillon<\/a>\u2019s 1,000th game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neither team was expected to be punished beyond a warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Players who have been in the NHL since before 2019 are grandfathered into being able to choose whether to go helmet-less. The league also has barred players from continuing to play without a helmet during games and prevented them from removing the head protection before fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Injuries have happened during warmups from falls or errant pucks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/taylor-hall\/8475791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/taylor-hall\/8475791\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hall<\/a> getting cut by a skate in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Visors on helmets were agreed to by the league and the NHLPA in 2013, also grandfathered. Four players remain without one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stephen Whyno, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NHL has sent a memo to its teams about a rule that requires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}