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Greg Wishynski
Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the NHL is warning teams against taking warmups without helmets, a trend this season that violates NHL rules.
Daly told ESPN that the league is sending a memo to teams reminding them that per Rule 9.6, “helmets are mandatory in warmups for all players entering the NHL for the 2019-2020 season or later.”
ottawa senators Skating without a helmet for warm-up in a game vegas golden knights As of last Wednesday, they had lost in their last six trips to T-Mobile Arena. Ahead shane pinto told TSN that the players decided to change their luck in Vegas by taking off their helmets at a team dinner. “It was great to do that,” he said.
The Senators won the game 4–3 in a shootout.
san jose sharks He also went helmetless in warmups in Vegas, and lost five consecutive road games to the Knights. Alas, their luck didn’t change and they lost 4-3 to their division rival. Ahead Will Smith Said that there was no special inspiration for this.
“It was a team decision. It was Saturday night in Vegas, so I think it was pretty easy for everybody [do] This,” he said.
on tuesday night New Jersey Devils Skating wearing a cap instead of a helmet, in honor of the defenseman Brendan Dillon’s 1,000th NHL game.
Rule 9.6 reads:
“All players entering the NHL at or after the start of the 2019-2020 season are required to wear their helmets during pre-game warm-ups. Obviously, all players entering the league prior to the 2019-2020 season and currently playing are exempt from this mandate.”
The NHL amended its rules in 2022 to mandate helmet use in warmups due to player safety concerns, particularly for rookies who took to the ice without a helmet before their first game as part of a long-standing NHL tradition. Like the league’s visor rule, some veteran players were “grandfathered” in and exempted.
