NHL general managers just wrapped up their winter meetings in Boca Raton, Florida this week, with the league finally starting to take action on a couple major issues, while another controversial system will stay in place as is.
Fresh off the David Ayres emergency goaltender saga, the EBUG was destined to be a hot topic. It certainly. was, but the league and its GMs decided that, at least for now, the system is working well enough to be left alone.
The NHL first made a change to the emergency backup goalie protocol back in 2015 when then-Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo took a puck off the head and left to go to the hospital, but was forced back into the game when backup Al Montoya was also injured.