Fix the NHL

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by DSIM420

It would make for great live TV and you would be able to see if the lottery was rigged or not live. It would be great to see the drama live on the draft floor and teams have little time to adjust based on their new draft positions.

Ah, just go with a Texas Hold'em tournament where the non-playoff teams get ranked 1-16, and each GM gets a starting stack of position x 1000.

[DSIM420]

Originally Posted by butterfly

If there is an actual malfunction, some low information viewers will claim that it's rigged.

If there is a malfunction it will be visible to everyone. If there is a malfunction behind closed doors and you hear about it after, more people will claim the thing is rigged then watching it play out live.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by butterfly

There are so many potential pitfalls to having the actual ping pong balls coming out of the machine on live TV. KPMG or whoever they use would never recommend that.

then have actual celebrity ball pickers.

but it would take longer than you think, that's 408 balls you have to pick.

[topfiverecords]

Get rid of the goalies. They have too much influence on the game.

Without goalies you could then allow kicking the puck for goals.

Make the puck a ball shape so you can use tracking technology for determining a goal over the line.

No goalies means way more $ for the rest of the roster.

Make the nets smaller, save some money on post and mesh material.

Reduce rosters to 3 forward lines. 4th line barely plays anyway. Why is there 3 D pairs and 4 forward sets?

Make the game continuous 90 mins with McDavid's discretion for extra time.

Game misconducts for drawing blood on a high stick.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

just make puck over the glass like an icing, no line changes.

My idea might be a little tough based on the subjectivity of some icing calls, but I've always thought it would be interesting to have a 'bonus penalty' system like basketball.

Each period you can make a total of 4 (or 5 or 3 or whatever number) of these infractions before you get a penalty on the next one:

- icing*
- puck over glass
- intentional offside
- goalie freezing puck outside their crease (ie. goalie has to have some body contact with crease, he can't slide fully out of his crease and cover puck)

*I think there would need to be a little subjectivity on icing...if there is a legit close race for the puck, or it's one of those stretch passes where it isn't totally clear if icing is the right call, maybe it shouldn't count. Or make the penalty threshold a bit higher and they all count.


It rewards high pressure play, but also gives a 'get out of jail free' card to a team protecting a lead in the last minutes if they are below the limit.

[calf]

No icing calls if your opponent has pulled their goalie at even strength.

[GioforPM]

adding to my previous list:

1 minute man advantage after a missed penalty shot
puck over glass is a one minute penalty unless refs say it was intentional delay of game
3-2-1 point system for regular win, OT win and OT loss
10 minute OT, if no winner, then just a point apiece. No shootout.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by DSIM420

If there is a malfunction it will be visible to everyone. If there is a malfunction behind closed doors and you hear about it after, more people will claim the thing is rigged then watching it play out live.

The live on TV draft lottery will never happen. Think about how incentivized the NHL is to increase viewership of any kind, then ask yourself why it's not already on TV.

There's simply far too much needless liability in case of a malfunction.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

There's plenty of things that could be better and officiating is probably #1 but there's a lot of others.

Here's three I would like to see.

- Draft Lottery:

The lottery should be an entertaining TV event bingo style with all 16 teams that miss having a chance at #1. bingo balls with team logos.

16th place - 16x3 = 48 balls (flames this year)
15th place -15x3 = 45 balls
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- so on
3rd place - 3x3 = 9 balls
2nd place - 2x3 = 6 balls
1st place - 1x3 = 3 balls

big drum rolls and the first team with 2 balls gets 16th overall, all the way down to the team that only has 1 ball come up for #1 overall.

I've always wanted a radical change the involved picking all 16 slots, and your 2 ball solution is the perfect way to mitigate the craziest outcomes. If necessary, I think you could add a maximum 'drop' (ie worst team can pick no lower than 6th or something) instead of the current maximum jump up, which is ####ing stupid.

I'd add a few more inputs to determine the weighting:

If you picked this slot in the previous year:
1OA = +10 balls
2OA = +8 balls
3OA = +6 balls
4OA = +4 balls
5OA = +2 balls

the year before that:
1OA = +8 balls
2OA = +6 balls
3OA = +4 balls
4OA = +2 balls

and so on so that the 1OA picker from 5 years ago gets +2 balls

[bzoo02]

NCAA idea:

College players can't be drafted until they are ready to turn pro. Would make for an exciting draft with some 22 year olds in the mix.

[calgarygeologist]

I'd like to see a loss of the PP when a short handed goal is scored.

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

I can’t believe so many people care about the offside rule when so few goals are called back, and it is breaking a clear , no interpretation rule - no different then any other against the rule foul or out of arena issue (puck hitting net , etc)

Why do you all want a goal to occur where an against the rules action (that is missed by a ref) occurred

With the offside rule, what really grinds my gears is when it needs to be zoomed in on from 7 different angles and stopped at frame by frame to see if it was by an inch.

If it’s that close it should be fine, just for the egregious missed ones it should be used.

[wretched34]

No more guaranteed contracts, make them performance based with option years.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by MrMike

With the offside rule, what really grinds my gears is when it needs to be zoomed in on from 7 different angles and stopped at frame by frame to see if it was by an inch.

If it’s that close it should be fine, just for the egregious missed ones it should be used.

What's 'that close'? This is the fear of replay and why some people are against it. Once it's brought in, it's black and white. There's no such thing as bringing in replay just for egregious missed ones. Because you can see everything and even beyond seeing everything, we have Hawkeye.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Remove the Edmonton Oilers from the NHL.

Done.

[Skaloper]

Make any penalties in OT a Penalty Shot instead or reduce the length to a minute. Really seems unfair to have 2 minute penalty in OT 4 on 3 with a long change...

[theinfinitejar]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

I can’t believe so many people care about the offside rule when so few goals are called back, and it is breaking a clear , no interpretation rule - no different then any other against the rule foul or out of arena issue (puck hitting net , etc)

Why do you all want a goal to occur where an against the rules action (that is missed by a ref) occurred

If the linesman call a play offside that actually wasn't there's no way to undo it, and if a guy dumps it in from 5 feet behind the red line it also can't get reviewed. Just seems silly to review a game flow rule only in one specific instance and not in a bunch of other situations that you theoretically could.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by MrMike

With the offside rule, what really grinds my gears is when it needs to be zoomed in on from 7 different angles and stopped at frame by frame to see if it was by an inch.

If it’s that close it should be fine, just for the egregious missed ones it should be used.

So, if it's close it OK. Define close? No matter what criteria you use, they'll always be that "gray arear" between acceptable amount of offide.

[Owen15]

Originally Posted by Cycling76er

No more betting ads. Period.

I bet this doesn’t happen.

[GreenLantern2814]

1. Hawkeye systems for offside reviews like they have in tennis.

There’s no such thing as a controversial review in tennis. Because the CGI ball either touches the line or doesn’t, and we all accept the machine is right and move on with our lives.

Rig that in the nets as well and stop wasting our lives with these friggen reviews.

2. Home teams wear white + more one-off jerseys and creative designs - the league has been devoid of interesting uniforms for 20 years.

The 90s have all sorts of gaudy monstrosities. It’s okay to look ridiculous once in a while.

3. Delete the trapezoid. Goalies handling the puck is a recipe for chaos. It should be encouraged.

The only reason the trapezoid was ever implemented was because two guys were so good at moving the puck, they ruined it for everyone.

But Turco and Brodeur never got to play without that trapezoid AND without the two line pass.

There’s such a premium on possession now, there’s no way a coach wants a goalie flicking in out into the neutral zone.

Let the goalies play the puck. They all think they’re good at it, and most of them are not. When they wander far from home, interesting things happen.

Honourable mention: 1st and 3rd periods get the long change. That’s more of an agent of chaos wish, I don’t know if that would make the game better. It might just give us two second periods.