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TORONTO -- Away from the pressure of competition, Colin Campbell hopes the NHL can find some clarity on its standard for calling penalties. The NHLs senior vice-president of hockey operations will oversee a rules summit with key stakeholders in the game Tuesday and Wednesday that is tasked with examining the way hooking, holding and interference calls were handed out last season. "Weve got lots of video clips to look at and were trying to determine where our standard is and if we want to tighten it up at all," Campbell said Monday. The meeting will be held in place of the research and development camp the NHL put on the last two years. There should be a healthy exchange of ideas with five general managers (Darcy Regier, Lou Lamoriello, Ray Shero, Steve Yzerman, Mike Gillis) and four head coaches (Joel Quenneville, Barry Trotz, Dave Tippett, Adam Oates) in a room with players, referees and members of the leagues hockey operations department. Campbell labelled it a "think-tank for hockey." The idea came out of the GM meetings in March, when a number of managers expressed frustration with what they believed to be a slip in standard for the way penalties were called. Campbell invited them to submit video of specific incidents, which will be looked at this week. "Personally, I dont think the hooking and holding has slipped," said Campbell. "I think we have to find out what we want with intereference on the forechecking and interference off the faceoff." The leagues former disciplinarian thinks the discussion might branch off to other rules like slashing. "Anything that stops a player from scoring," he said. This will be the first exercise of its kind since the NHL held a major crackdown on obstruction coming out of the 2004-05 lockout. However, Campbell doesnt expect it to have nearly the same impact on the sport in terms of the number of penalties called. "That was a much bigger change then," he said. "You were allowed to hook a guy hard three times before it was even thought about calling a penalty. There was lots of grabbing, lots of turnstile (moves) with defenceman sticking people in between the legs. "It was a major turn back then and it was hard to actually implement." The latest summit is intended to try and get everyone on the same page. Campbell was pleased that a handful of players accepted an invitation even though collective bargaining negotiations are ongoing and is curious to see if the attitude in the room is consistent with how the managers felt in March, when their teams were in the heat of playoff races. "I want to find out -- Im just one guy watching games," said Campbell. "Theres lots of opinions out there so Id like to see us sit down and just get that opinion from particularly the three groups that are dealing with it all the time: the referees, the players and the coaches." Tom Brady nike Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. youth Tom Brady Jersey . 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MINNEAPOLIS -- As Phil Hughes laboured through the seventh inning, Joe Girardi saw reliable lefty Boone Logan warming in the bullpen, a string of four straight left-handed hitters for the Minnesota Twins due up and the Baltimore Orioles already losers to Toronto. With a 3-1 lead and the bases loaded, Girardi decided to play it safe, and it cost the New York Yankees. Logan couldnt hold the lead for Hughes as the Yankees missed a chance to go up 2 1/2 games on Baltimore in a 5-4 loss to the Twins on Tuesday night. "Its tough," Hughes said. "I feel like I was throwing the ball well. Its a tough one to lose." Hughes (16-13) was strong through six innings and the Yankees jumped out to a 3-1 lead. But he left with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh. "The inning was so long and hed worked so hard, and Boonie had done a good job in his career against Span, I decided to go with him," Girardi said. Logan let one run score on a wild pitch before giving up a two-run double to Denard Span that put the Twins in front for good. Joe Mauer followed with his third single of the game to cap the four-run seventh, and the Twins held on to keep the Orioles, who lost to Toronto earlier on Tuesday, 1 1/2 games back of New York in the AL East. "Its easy to look back and criticize when your lefty who has been money all year doesnt get it done," catcher Russell Martin said. "I have to block the ball. Thats what changed the inning." Nick Swisher homered for the third straight game, Martin also went deep and Andruw Jones hit a pinch-hit solo shot off of closer Glen Perkins in the ninth inning for the Yankees. But Perkins struck out Jayson Nix for his 15th save. Martins soaring shot in the seventh off of Casey Fien (2-1) in the seventh was his 19th of the season, which ties a career high, and gave New York a 3-1 lead. But Hughes ran into trouble in the bottom of the inning after allowing just one run on four hits in the first six. With much better command of his fastball and changeup than hes had lately, Fien retired nine of the next 10 batters after giving up an RBI double to Chris Parmelee in the fourth. Then things went a little haywire for the 26-year-old right-hander. He gave up a single to Ryan Doumit, walked Parmelee and Jamey Carroll reached on aan infield hit with one out to load the bases.dddddddddddd With Hughes at 99 pitches, Yankees manager Joe Girardi went to the lefty Logan to face a string of four straight left-handed hitters in the Twins lineup. Logans first pitch was wild, getting by Martin to allow Doumit to score. Span followed with the double and Mauer the single to raise his average to .326, just behind Triple Crown candidate Miguel Cabrera (.329) in the American League. Hughes said he wanted to stay in the game. "I was hoping so," he said. "But I dont make those decisions. I pitch until Im told to." Logan said his slider just wasnt as sharp as it normally is. "I was trying to battle through it but just had a bad game," he said. It was a disappointing finish for Hughes, who has won three straight starts and was appearing to pick up steam with the post-season just over a week away. He finished with four runs on six hits and four strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings. Derek Jeter extended his hitting streak to 19 games with a single in the first inning and Robinson Cano went 3 for 3 with a walk for the Yankees, who could have opened their largest division lead since Sept. 1. Esmerling Vasquez gave up two runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in six innings for the Twins. On the bright side for the Yankees, the loss didnt let Baltimore gain any ground. "We had an opportunity," Girardi said. "But you can look at it the other way, too. Weve got to come out and win the series tomorrow." NOTES: On Monday night, Curtis Granderson joined Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and Jason Giambi as the only Yankees to hit 40-plus HRs in back-to-back seasons. "Especially with the number of guys that have played for the Yankees and put the pinstripes on, at least for one sentence I get to get mentioned with those guys," Granderson said. "Thats pretty cool." ... Twins OF Josh Willingham did not play because of a strained left shoulder. ... Mauer had only thrown out seven of 56 base runners on the season, but he went 2 for 2 on Tuesday night, getting Ichiro Suzuki and Martin on strike-em-out, throw-em-out double plays in the third and fourth. ... The Twins send RHP Samuel Deduno (6-5, 4.54) to the mound on Wednesday for the finale against LHP CC Sabathia (13-6, 3.47). ' ' '
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