New rule change confuses players on the ice and leads to goal...

​Connor McDavid wanted to get mad but couldn’t!

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New rule change confuses players on the ice and leads to goal...
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The 2019-20 season is underway and fans still need to learn some of the rules changes. 

But the players also need to get used to them. 

On Wednesday night during the opener between the Vancouver Canucks and Oilers in Edmonton, captain Connor McDavid had to respect a new rule and it took an ugly turn. The star forward lost his helmet on the play and needed to get it back on, which got everyone on the ice confused and led to a Canucks’ goal. 

Here is how Darren Dreger explained it on Thursdays’s Insider Trading on TSN: 

“I mean, it was applied, and it was executed in the game with the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks last night. Now, McDavid loses his helmet in a puck battle in the defensive zone. Now, the ref is communicating with him telling him to put it back on. You can see, he struggles there low and behold, the shot from the point by Alex Edler goes through. The Vancouver Canucks score. But the Oilers are OK with it. Obviously, they’d prefer the puck not go in the net. They don’t blame McDavid for it. But they understand the rule and they support how it was handled by the league.”

Unfortunately in the NHL, rules aren’t meant to be broken… McDavid struggled to get his lid and Edler was not going to miss out on that opportunity! 

The good thing for McDavid and his teammates: they still managed to win the game. 


Source: TSN