NHL Tinkering With Rules

I really like the wider blue lines. The count down style OT seems like it would be crazy or at least intresting to watch.
No icing while short handed- WTF you will just have 4 guys dragging ass tired who can’t even skate. It is almost hard to believe (but not really) the NHL would stoop to such levels to try to increase scoring.
At times it almost seems the NHL would be happy if the average scores on a nightly basis were 10-9. I am all for bettering the game but this is not baseball its notlike the sport isn’t freaking exciting already.

Better start practicing shooting the puck into the bench without sending it over the glass. what a ridiculous rule — that has to be Bettman’s genius at work — shows a complete lack of understanding of the game yet a “flair for marketing”.

Shrink the crease in the first place? Throughout most of the 90’s it was a pretty wide semi-circle? Is it because of the “in the crease infraction that won’t be called in the most crucial game of the season” fiasco of the 1999 Finals?

i like the wider blue lines and the icingcall but the no icing shorthanded is stupid and the ot is has to go i dont like it the way it is now. Just think we are the only sports that awards points to a team that loses a game i think ot should be 5on5 suddendeath or let it end ina tie if they dont want it to go too long during the regular season and i hate the shootout wider creases i dont mind either but i think if a goalie leaves the crease hes fair game to get hit

1. Hybrid Icing is good.

2. They doubled the size of the bluelines at this camp – which is too much. As of right now they are 12 inches wide, make them 18 if they wish to widen them, not 24.

3. I see no need for wider creases or face-off variations.

4. The countdown OT crap seems like more of a sham than the shootout. 2 v 2 doesn’t belong in the NHL, that stuff is pick-up jungle hockey crap. 3 v 3 I can live with, I guess.

5. Shorthanded icing will never leave the game in the foreseeable future.

6. The line-change zones are a great idea (one that Don Cherry thought up). I don’t think they need to be colored blue, just one red line coming out from the benches. Will it cut down on a lot of penalties? No, but it will cut down on key, unnecessary, too-many-men penalties that seem to always get called at the wrong time.

How many other sports do you see constantly changing rules?

I can agree with the Icing idea and reshaping the point system. But all the other ideas are just plain garbage.

Its bad enough the refrees cant ref a game properly. Then the league is going to institute new rules for them to “adapt” too. Bettman and this shame of a competitions committee is on the fast track to ruining what is left of hockey.

My biggest issues are with icing the puck while shorthanded, and the “countdown” OT, how frigging ridiculous is that?

Remember when you were a kid, and you played street hockey, and had a scenario where not enough kids were around, so you played 2 on 2, and ran all over the place? Remember how much that sucked? Yeah the NHL doesn’t.

Imagine if baseball played the 10th and 11th with 8 players, 12th and 13th with 7, 14th and 15th with 6, and so on.

It just seems like every year this league gets more “gimmicky”, just go play effing hockey. Tie game after 60? Go play another 20, unless someone scores. Nobody scores? Do it again.

All the face-off changes belong in the stupid category.

They need to get rid of the loser charity point completely, thats the problem. How can you get rewarded for losing? I say: 2 pts for Reg. win, 1 pt. OT/SO win, 0pts for any loss.

“Trying to trick people into watching the game since 1995”

maybe they can add a rule where the team wearing a blue jersey gets a goal at the start of every period

How else would u kill a penalty? ooohh carry it out of your own zone…lame.
Okay the points system is fine. Sure us die hards want 3 points awarded but teams would tank and sell before 45 games are played. Not good for the nhl

I can’t believe you put a 2-on-2 OT under ‘OK’ and not ‘Stupid’.

terrible idea, would it be stoppages every minute to get people off the ice or a penalty if they’re not off in time? either way it would wreck the flow of the game (like, say, in the opening minute if team a gets the puck deep, generates pressure….then a whistle blows it dead so it can go down to 3 on 3, or worse, two players have to skate off….this isn’t river hockey!)

at least they’re not talking about going from 3 20 minute periods to 4 15 minute quarters this time around

Would just perpetuate every arena playing Europe’s Final Countdown during every OT faceoff.

How about an overtime where everyone is on the ice at the same time? All four lines of forwards, all three lines of defense, and both goalies?

Ok ok, in the Rangers case with Tortorella, all three lines of forwards

Keeping play alive even if the puck bounces off the netting above the glass behind the net?

I mean, yeah, it sounds sort of Arena League Football-ish, but it would reduce whistles and keep the flow of the game going I suppose.

Just throwing it out there, please do not call me stupid or moronic. I’m very sensitive.

The good is…well good.
I actually like all the OK, expect the OT format shouldn’t have a 2 on 2. 4 on 4 and 3 on 3 is good.
No icing is stupid. The middle faceoff dots are retarded. The offsides isn’t that bad of an idea, just a way to create scoring I guess, and the line change zones I actually like, keeps players aware when changing lines.