NY Rangers

I know its the American Motor Company of team sports but baseball is over and the other area sports team ain't so great, so I'm going with it.

After a pre-season of gloom and doom and finger pointing, the Ranger are the best team in hockey right now. They have the most goals and the best goal differential. They are just pouring goals into the net unlike any Ranger team in recent memory. Oh, and they scored two short handed goals last night and blew a very easy third one.

GO RANGERS!

I'm really perplexed by this newish rule,called twice in the Rangers series, once to game changing effect, that penalizes a faceoff man for touching the puck with hand in faceoff circle before it gets touched by another player, or something like that.  I can understand a rule  aimed at preventing faceoff men from swiping at the puck with hand as a first move, i.e. knocking the puck out of the air as its dropped, but once it hits the ice after some initial whacks at it with sticks, who cares?  An actual hand pass is not a penalty out of the faceoff situation so why is mere hand touch a penalty in the situation?   I don't recall anyone clamoring a for a rule change in this area.