The premiere development league in North America has made some changes for the upcoming season
Today the Ontario Hockey League sent out a press release updating everyone about some rule changes to the league for the 2016/2017. You can read that here.
The easiest change to digest is that the league will adopt the NHL’s hybrid icing rules for the season.
The next two are big ones.
First, they have amended their fighting limits rules:
In addition, the league took further steps to address fighting in the game by lowering the threshold prior to automatic disciplinary action being assessed from 10 fights per player per season to three fights per player per season.