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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Jiri is talking about eliminating body checking.
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To be clear my changes would be as follows
- Eliminate all fighting immediately
- Severely punish any check where the principle point of contact is the head. And by severe I mean long suspensions
I would then assess if additional changes are needed. I suspect that you need to evolve the game more to really make checking more about seperating puck from player and nothing more. I can see body contact being primarily around positioning and "muscling players" off the puck and less about "hitting".
That's the nuance I see. The difference between checking and hitting.
Checking can be inclusive of stick checks, body positioning, and puck battles. What it would exclude is any instance where someone is doing more than they need to in order to re-gain the puck.
Within that there is a lot of stuff to figure out. But conceptually that's where I see the game going.
And I know that is not what a lot of people want. I'm aware of that.