Linesman Pierre Champoux St.Louis Blues Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images
The St. Louis Blues will be adjusting to a slightly altered offside rule in 2021. The change should be good, but the implementation is probably not going to be.
The St. Louis Blues have been burned several times by the offside rule in recent years. It’s likely true for all teams, but we see it with the Blues more because we watch every game with ferocious intent.
The way the rule read most recently, the offensive player’s skate had to be in contact with the ice on the defensive side of the blue line (which included the blue line itself) before the puck entered the zone.