Our annual rules and officiating show on the Jan. 30 edition of USCHO Live!

16 Dec 11: Reviewing the NCAA Rule Book. The St. Cloud State Huskies host the Denver University Pioneers in a WCHA match up at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, MN. (Jim Rosvold)
Reviewing the NCAA rule book and officiating are the topics of this week’s USCHO Live! (file photo: Jim Rosvold).

It’s our annual get-together on rules and officiating. Guests on the Tuesday, January 30, edition of USCHO Live! include NCAA rules committee secretary Steve Piotrowski, who also serves as Big Ten coordinator of officials and who is a veteran referee, Frank Cole, national coordinator of ice hockey officials, and NCAA associate director of playing rules administration, and NCAA ice hockey rules committee liaison Ty Halpin.

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About the hosts

Jim Connelly is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he co-writes “Tuesday Morning Quarterback.” Jim is the winner of the 2012 Joe Concannon award. He a former color analyst for UMass-Lowell hockey’s radio network and studio analyst for NESN.

Ed Trefzger has been part of USCHO since 1999 and now serves as a senior writer and director of technology. He is the radio play-by-play voice for Rochester Institute of Technology hockey on the RIT Tigers Sports Network, and has been involved with the broadcasts as a producer, studio host, and color commentator since their inception. He is the owner and president of broadcasting company Dansville Media, and was general manager of the former Rochester, N.Y., sports radio station 97.5 The Team.