Do not change the dimensions of the ice. Wider ice means plays kept to the outside, less turnovers, and less scoring. My minor tweaks are as follows:
-Reduce goalie equipment
-No coaches challenge on offside
-Penalties: Make them serve the full 2 minutes and call icing.
-Remove delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass. Make it the same as icing: no line change.
-Let goalies play the puck!
-3-2-1 point system
-Remove shootouts: in regular season play 3 on 3 sudden death.
-In Playoff OT have first OT 5 on 5, second OT 4 on 4, then go 3 on 3.
-Finally, kind of pointless but why not: remove the neutral zone face off dots and just have every neutral zone face off at centre ice.
Last edited by FireGilbert; 02-01-2016 at 04:13 PM.
It's a simple fix, use the same system as they do to measure sticks. Let the coaches challenge anything but if they are wrong they take a 2min delay of game penalty. That would eliminate 90% of the time wasting challenges. You'd have to put a time limit between challenges or something to keep it from being abused though. Tying challenges to time outs is dumb.
I agree. If there's a blatantly bad call, you should still be able to challenge it even if you've already used your time out. So many of the challenges that have happened this year are coaches just throwing up a Hail Mary hoping they can get it overturned, especially if it's a late goal in a close game.
Make it a delay-of-game penalty, and coaches will be much less likely to waste everyone's time with them. Also, if a play is challenged in OT, it should be an automatic fine against the coach since there would be no time for a penalty. The coach could appeal the fine if it was a legitimately close call, but otherwise, they should have to pay.
Also, there should be a time limit for calling for the challenge, and time limit to complete the challenge. A coach shouldn't have two minutes to decide if there's a chance he will win a challenge, and then the officials take another 10 minutes analyzing frame-by-frame replays.
I believe they should also limit the replays to real-time, with no slow-motion. slo-mo distorts so many things. If you can't tell if a player is offside or interfering with the goalie looking at the replay in real-time, that should be too close to call and the call on the ice should stand.
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1. Remove trapezoid penalty, but put some electronics and tracking on goalie, and when they enter the corners, there is a 20% chance they will be have their blades fall off
2. remove one defensive position and create a new position called Bludger - remove this players hockey stick and give them boxing gloves. This player would not be subject to roughing minors.
3. Only allow protective equipment from the knees up for all skaters
4. No actual stoppages of play, including end of periods. Goalies need to change ends while play is live.
5. Instead of shoot out, three staged fights
6. Electronics in goalie glove that sends a jolt to goalies hand as long as puck is in glove
All of these please. hahaha
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I'd also be interested in the netting being considered part of the field of play. Only issue I can see is home teams setting their 1st/3rd period attacking zone nets tighter or better secured at the bottom than the defending zone.
Do not change the dimensions of the ice. Wider ice means plays kept to the outside, less turnovers, and less scoring. My minor tweaks are as follows:
-Reduce goalie equipment
-No coaches challenge on offside
-Penalties: Make them serve the full 2 minutes and call icing.
-Remove delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass. Make it the same as icing: no line change.
-Let goalies play the puck!
-3-2-1 point system
-Remove shootouts: in regular season play 3 on 3 sudden death.
-In Playoff OT have first OT 5 on 5, second OT 4 on 4, then go 3 on 3.
-Finally, kind of pointless but why not: remove the neutral zone face off dots and just have every neutral zone face off at centre ice.
You had me until the last two. Playoff OT is perfect the way it is, and the faceoff thing is weird and I don't know what the point of it would be.
-Eliminate the shootout and go to unlimited 3on3 until there's a goal
-Eliminate the points system and use W-L and games back
-Ditch the instigator rule
-Make visors optional again
-Smaller goalie equipment
-Penalty doesn't end after PP goal is scored
-Penalty ends if SH goal is scored
-Issue Alex Burrows a lifetime suspension
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The one small tweak that I can't believe hasn't happened yet is to alter icing so it no longer effects missed passes in the neutral zone. When you're out of your own zone you're no longer really "icing" the puck, you just f'd up a forward pass.
Think you'd get more speed on the forecheck if you could pass your blueline and hammer it in and chase it.
I have wanted to let the linesmen use more discretion on icing calls. The intent of icing I believed was to stop teams under pressure from just dumping it out. Too many intended passes that just barely miss become icings and slow down the game. I would include stretch passes from within the zone as fine.
I respect the submission by Bingo that looks like a bit of a compromise, it doesn't fully restore the intent, but I suppose eliminates at least some unnecessary icings.
We agree in principle, barely missed passes should not stop the game. A linesman should really be able to use judgment to determine if a team is dumping it out or trying to make a legitimate pass.
I don't like how rosters are so static and I think the league lost a lot of interesting player movement with the salary cap, so I came up with the really half-baked idea of having a "Cap Release Day", which is sort of like "Trade Deadline Day", except completely different.
Here's what I was thinking:
During the off-season, the cap is artificially lowered by something like 10%. Teams would have to be under this lower cap by the same date leading into the season as they are now.
During the early part of the season, this extra cap space would accrue just like normal since all the teams (assuming they follow the rules) are 10% under the real salary cap.
Some time in mid November to early December, after 20-25 games, we'd have "Cap Release Day", where the salary cap instantly goes up to the real amount.
GMs who think they have a shot at the Cup suddenly have a giant chunk of extra cash to work with and go crazy with picking up salary, completely screwing themselves for the next off-season.
Now, there are obviously a ton of problems with this idea, not the least of which is that approximately 100% of the players and 99% of the league executives would never, ever agree to something like it. I just love trade speculation and deadline day and all the media crap and analysis and guessing that comes with it. I hope in future CBAs there are provisions to allow for more freedom.
If a player knocks another guys stick out of his hands, it is not slashing. The other guy should be razzed by his teammates for not holding on to his stick
Maybe the coaches will tape his gloves to the stick in practice like my coach did to me when I was about 5
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