[CaptainCrunch]

Keep the salary cap, completely and in its total form.

Take the referee's off of the ice and put them in official chairs in the broadcast booth. Have the face offs administrated via dropping pucks from the ceiling, in flames.

If there's a fight, its allowed to last for 1 minute or less, the linesmen are in the broadcast booth with sniper rifles loaded with elephant tranquilizers.

Have the goal review done by a computerize Robot that can potentially learn and an exponential rate and will eventually view humanity as an enemy of hockey.

Replace over time with a doubles ice skating competition, who doesn't want to see Brouwer catching Johnny in his arms and then spinning him down the ice?

Coaches have to cosplay.

Trade deadline trades. Trades are no longer announce until after games are played. and players are revealed like wrestlers coming to a territory. All games on the day after trade deadline are played at the same time no matter the time zone to increase the suspense.