Officials will now be able to completely overturn a major penalty after seeing the video replay, which was not the case before and has led to some very frustrating situations for fans and organizations.
In other words, when a major penalty is called, the referees will now have the option to go to the video replay and overturn it.
This is a change that many have been asking for, for a long time, and it is now done. We remember of course the famous penalty awarded to Cody Eakin (Las Vegas) on Joe Pavelski (San Jose), which led to a catastrophe for the Golden Knights:
This news is good for the fans and for the league in general, it will certainly allow, as my colleague David St-Jean of Marqueur.com points out, to avoid certain injustices.