Is that a rule?

[HansonBro]

Tonight (Thursday) Toronto vs Ottawa, Laughton for the Leafs left the game with an injury during an icing. Tavares replaced him but wasn't allowed to take the face off. Ultimately led to an Ottawa goal.

I can't say I've ever seen this before. Is this common?

 

[Tobias Kahun]

It makes sense.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I don’t think that’s in the rules.

 

[ref19]

Yep, it's a rule. Guy replacing the injured player cannot take the draw. Has to be someone that was on the ice.

 

[Section337]

Happened in the Oilers Kings game tonight, too. Henrique went off, looked like he was bleeding, Drai replaced him but told Frederic to take the draw.

Was wondering if that was a rule, when I saw it happen. Interesting it happened twice tonight.

 

[tarheelhockey]

For the life of me I can’t find this anywhere in the rulebook. Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place but it’s not under the rules about icing, faceoffs, or substitutions.

 

[saska sault]

 

[Legion34]

I had no idea but as a leafs fan. It makes sense.

 

[Summer Rose]

For the life of me I can’t find this anywhere in the rulebook. Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place but it’s not under the rules about icing, faceoffs, or substitutions.

Neither can I. I've also spent the last 15 minutes or so reading and re-reading the rules about icing, faceoffs, and player substitutions and I'm not seeing anything in there about it. It wouldn't surprise me if it's still a rule anyway, but assuming it is, it must be in a different part of the rule book (which if so, that's a weird place to put it).

Checked rule 8 (injured players) for good measure. Couldn't find anything about it in that rule either.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Neither can I. I've also spent the last 15 minutes or so reading and re-reading the rules about icing, faceoffs, and player substitutions and I'm not seeing anything in there about it. It wouldn't surprise me if it's still a rule anyway, but assuming it is, it must be in a different part of the rule book (which if so, that's a weird place to put it).

Checked rule 8 (injured players) for good measure. Couldn't find anything about it in that rule either.

Sometimes they edit the rulebook mid-season via memo (famously in 1999) but I can’t find anything to that effect either.

 

[Summer Rose]

Sometimes they edit the rulebook mid-season via memo (famously in 1999) but I can’t find anything to that effect either.

Definitely a possibility. I also realized that I had been looking at the 23-24 edition of the rules. I just went back and read all four of those rules again, this time making sure I was reading the 24-25 edition in case it was a new thing for this season, but still couldn't find anything.

 

[snag]

Sometimes they edit the rulebook mid-season via memo (famously in 1999) but I can’t find anything to that effect either.

me neither......but I found some typos lol

 

[HansonBro]

It's interesting we can't find the specific ruling. I tried for a bit today and came up with nothing as well

 

[wunderpanda]

i can't find anything specific either. 82.1 mentions injury replacement after line changes are permitted & before face off. there is probably some other rule about the replacements touching the puck first, like the line changes rules. player on the ice can't touch the puck until the other skater is off the ice.

maybe the injury replacement is permitted to be on the ice but isn't legally on the ice until after the face off, and cannot take the faceoff because he doesn't exist yet.

 

[tarheelhockey]

At this point I’m doubting that this rule actually exists. Are we absolutely sure the players were directed not to take the faceoff by the officials, rather than teammates just making a switch on their own?

 

[Suntouchable13]

At this point I’m doubting that this rule actually exists. Are we absolutely sure the players were directed not to take the faceoff by the officials, rather than teammates just making a switch on their own?

It's the NHL. Would you be surprised if they made up a rule on the spot?

 

[HockeyVirus]

At this point I’m doubting that this rule actually exists. Are we absolutely sure the players were directed not to take the faceoff by the officials, rather than teammates just making a switch on their own?

Yes and they talked about it on the broadcast as it happened. Tavares is our best faceoff player so he would be taking a defensive zone draw 100% of the time

 

[tarheelhockey]

Yes and they talked about it on the broadcast as it happened. Tavares is our best faceoff player so he would be taking a defensive zone draw 100% of the time

It had to have been some sort of midseason rule modification then. It’s nowhere in the actual rulebook and wasn’t a new rule for 2025.

 

[Golden_Jet]

It had to have been some sort of midseason rule modification then. It’s nowhere in the actual rulebook and wasn’t a new rule for 2025.

Hard to say, the refs get binders with more detailed info on each rule, with examples, I recall a ref saying once.

Makes sense though.