Product Description: The National Hockey League official rules contains rink diagrams and signals/penalties used by referees and linesman for regular season and Stanley Cup playoffs.
Comes in handy when watching the game This is the annual revision of the rules, due out this month (Nov. 08).
I like having a hard-copy of the rules in the family room. When a complicated call gets kicked upstairs to the booth, or there's a discussion as to whether a rule should apply, it's nice to have the actual rule on hand to see for yourself.
Having the book around for flipping through as a refresher here and there doesn't hurt either. Some details, like the number of men on the ice for regular-season overtime in certain penalty situations, can make your head spin. If you don't have a reference handy (or a better memory than mine), you'll never get it right.
The Triumph Books version of the rulebook is compact and limited to the rules content itself. No fluff. Cheap, too.