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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
1. 4 on 4.
2. The stick can only be used for the purpose of attempting to play the puck. Anything else is a penalty. No grey area.
Throwing a body check after the puck is gone is a lot less smart when it leaves the rest of the ice at 3 on 3. Missing an open ice body check would be damn near disastrous.
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Few problems here... first, no stick checking? No lifting of the stick? Wow, and I thought the proposal to eliminate physical play was bold and radical. Second, even if you make the game 4 on 4, coaches will find a way to trap it up. That's what they do. Third, the NHLPA will never sign on to a change that effectively eliminates 20% of the required jobs in the league. Fourth, if you make everything stick-related illegal, prepare for a whole bunch of new and inventive ways for players to embellish to get calls.
Dunno why you're talking about stick checking anyway. There are plenty of rules to prevent stick abuse in the rulebook that just aren't called. They could call them on every play, and presumably over the course of the next couple of seasons people would stop doing them (in admidst a whole lot of whining and diving). Apparently there's no appetite to do so.