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"One of the concepts that we talked about is how we spent a lot of time over the years over how to create more offense, but should we go about [it] differently?" Treliving said. "Should we look at ways to legislate defense?"

Treliving said in particular they talked about congestion in front of the net and shot blocking.

"You need an act of God to get a puck through from the point into where a goalie has to make a save," Treliving said. "That's something that perhaps can be addressed."

Treliving said they even discussed enlarging the size of the zone.

"We always talk about creating rules to create offense, create offense, and then we give it to our coaches and 10 minutes later they've figured out a way to kill that idea," Treliving said. "But what if we find a way to limit defense. Instead of giving them tools for the toolbox, take a few out. We spent a lot of time on that."

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