They need to get rid of the hand pass all together. 99.9% of the times it happens, the puck is coming towards a player mid air and they aren't even passing, they're redirecting it.
Why can a player on a powerplay, stand at the blueline and use his hand to knock a clearing attempt down to keep it in the zone, to gain advantage, but if another player on the same team gets the puck due to a hundred arbitrary variables, it's too much advantage and we have to stop the play?
Or at least modify it so that you still can't be on a two on one, flip the puck up in the air and swat it over to the other player. Or when laying on the ice in the crease, swipe the puck with your hand to a teammate.
The really obvious ones, where you either already had control of the puck, or you hand passed a dead puck can stay. Swatting at a clearing attempt to keep it in the zone isn't a pass. If it hit Coleman's stick instead of his pinky tip, would that constitute a pass?
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