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Originally Posted by 81MC
Both these are terrible ideas.
####, I can throw a puck 200', lets do it.
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You can already legally throw the puck 200'. Well, you can't throw it because that would require closing your hand on the puck, but it's perfectly fine to bat the puck out of your defensive zone with your hand and send it down the length of the ice. If the first player to touch the puck after you hit it is on the other team, there won't even be a stoppage in play.
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Originally Posted by Rando
How would either of these things (and not even getting into kicking) improve the game?
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On the flip side, do either of these rules in their current form actually do anything to improve the game now?
Arguably, by making both of these things legal, the improvements would be:
- Fewer overall stoppages in play
- Allows a team to sustain pressure in the offensive zone, potentially leading to more and better scoring chances
- Reduce incorrect stoppages when officials believe they saw a hand pass or high stick that didn't happen
- Reduce potential coach's challenge opportunities and the delays they cause
- Reduce the chance of a goal being called back because of a missed call at some indeterminate point in the past that had no direct impact on the scoring of the goal
Obviously, those last two are only problems now that they allow coach's challenges for hand passes and high sticks.
I guess that's the argument. If those things are against the rules, they should be reviewable. If we don't want them to be reviewable because they're too minor, why are they against the rules at all?