The IIHF Rule Book is revised every four years and for the 2014 IIHF Annual Congress 86 proposals for 57 rules came together from five committees and several IIHF member national associations.

Some major proposals that will be individually discussed and voted on include:

• to standardize the dimensions of the ice surface
• to move the goal line closer to the end of the rink (from 4 to 3.3 metres)
• to move the blue line in order to standardize and also increase the offensive zones
• to remove the “cheater piece” of goalkeepers’ catching gloves
• to double the penalty for goalkeeper interference to 2+2 minutes
• to penalize any deliberate grabbing, twisting or holding of an opponent’s head with a major penalty
• to forbid bass drums at ice rinks in addition to air horns and whistles already mentioned in the current rule book.
• that goalkeepers cannot freeze the puck if the shot originates from outside the blue line

 
There will also be controversial major rule proposals for discussions such as proposals to reinstate the red-line offside or to introduce touch icing.

Several rule changes determined as minor and housekeeping will be voted en bloc including the definition of an ice surface as surface made of frozen water, that players taller than two metres can request exceptions for a longer shaft of the stick, to allow and include one-piece catching gloves, a new rule for slew-footing to distinguish from the tripping rule and a new rule for broken sticks that allows to get new sticks to be handed only at the player bench except for goalkeepers, who can receive a new goalkeeper stick from a teammate.