Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 13m
Visors will be grandfathered in. Hybrid icing tested in NHL preseason. Shallower nets to be used next season. All subject to board approval

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 9m
Additional video review for 4 min highsticking penalties is a large step in allowing vid review for other issues down the road.

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 3m
Many things discussed in conjunction with mandatory visors. Helmets on for fights was discussed. Won't be enforced...yet.

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 2m
Players who have played 26 or more NHL regular season or playoff games will not have to wear a visor under grandfather agreement.

Pierre LeBrun (@Real_ESPNLeBrun)
6/5/13, 8:08 AM
It sounds like there will be an NHL hearing for Duncan Keith later today.... waiting to find out more, stay tuned

Chicago Blackhawks defenceman Duncan Keith will have a disciplinary hearing with the NHL later today for his high stick to the face of Los Angeles Kings forward Jeff Carter during Game 3 of the Western Conference final.

Keith clipped Carter during an exchange well behind the play in the second period. After Carter took a short hack at Keith's hand while the defenceman bent down to pick up his glove, Keith responded by skating behind Carter and hitting him in the face with a one-handed swing of his stick, dropping Carter to the ice.

"Yeah, it was accidental," Keith said after the game. "Obviously, I wanted to give him a tap, but not where I got him. I felt bad. I'm glad to see that he came back. It was just a scuffle. It was an accident."

The injury forced Carter, who wears a visor, to miss the Kings' ensuing four-minute power play, which went nowhere. Carter, who scored two goals in the Kings' Stanley Cup-clinching victory over New Jersey last year, has six goals in this post-season, sharing the Kings lead with Justin Williams.

It appeared that Keith attempted to apologize to Carter on the ice after Carter returned to the game.

Kings' coach Darryl Sutter thought Keith got off easily with a double minor after opening a gash on Carter's face during the Blackhawks' 3-1 loss.

"I didn't think it was a four-minute penalty," Sutter said. "Thought it was a wrong call. ... That's three head injuries now in the playoffs for us. I don't know how to answer it. It's retaliation with a stick. It's not a high stick. Whatever they want to call it, they'll call it. Don't even need video."

The Kings lost centre Jarret Stoll for six games in the second round with an apparent concussion from an illegal hit by San Jose's Raffi Torres. Stoll returned for the conference finals, but the Kings then lost leading scorer Mike Richards for the past two games after a big hit late in Game 1 from Chicago's Dave Bolland.

Carter led the Western Conference with 26 goals during the regular season. His midseason arrival from Columbus last year was a factor in the Kings' improbable surge to their first Stanley Cup title.

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