The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel has given the thumbs-up to a number of changes proposed in June by the Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Rules Committee.

It also approved an option for officials to assess a major penalty for interference to penalize significant contact that occurs away from the head and neck.

That change wasn’t included in initial recommendations made public by the hockey rules committee and has more of a procedural impact in which penalty call is used by referees.

Among the changes are added scenarios for the use of video replay, including on plays where skaters may have been offside or a team had too many players on the ice.

Goals also may be reviewed to determine if they were scored before a penalty occurred, and video from any source available to game officials now may be used. Previously, only video from television broadcasts was allowed.

The other rule changes to be made for the 2014-15 season, according to the NCAA: