Report: Standard for slashing, offside challenges among topics at GM meetings

Among two of the game's biggest criticisms will be on the table when all 31 general managers convene on Thursday afternoon in Chicago.

The league's GMs will meet to discuss a number of topics and among them are a potential new standard for slashing and possibly making changes to the coach's challenges of offside calls, according to TSN's Pierre LeBrun.

Slashing has become a hot-button topic of late due to the perceived increase in the amount of slashes, especially to players' extremities such as hands. Meanwhile, offside reviews have come under great scrutiny for many reasons, including the fact that calls are coming down to mere fractions of millimeters in some cases.

The meeting will take place at 5 p.m. ET.