Hockey Rule Changes

[4thstreet]

Go back to 2 points for win, 1 for tie,and no damn ot or shootouts.
The modified point system is a joke and NO points should be awarded to a losing team.

 

[obxyankeefan]

If you are choosing between the two, I think the latter makes less sense - keep the goalies protected.

I was a Center when I played FUCK THE GOALIES.

All kidding aside, I thought about goalie safety when I said that. I would prefer to find a way to open up the net without changing the size of the net. The goalie leg pads are the only way I can think of to do that.

 

[Darkstone42]

I also advocate for reducing goalie pad size to the smallest possible while still protecting them adequately. Making the net bigger would increase scoring, but its effect would be a bit mitigated by making plays from behind the net a little more difficult, and in particular wrap-arounds (which are awesome to watch).

For powerplays, I prefer not to let it keep going after a goal for minor penalties, because I like having that distinction between minors and majors, but I do think letting the team still get the powerplay if they score with the extra attacker, and awarding both a powerplay and a penalty shot on those sorts of penalties, irrespective of the success or failure of the penalty shot are ideas I like.

I'd also make delay of game the same as icing and no longer a penalty, but call all obstruction penalties much more strictly by the letter, and not raise the standard for calling them when a team is already on the powerplay.

I'm all about extending 3-on-3 overtime, too. It's glorious. And if you keep the shootout and go to the 3-2-1-0 format, the 2-1 option would only be for the shootout. Still all or nothing in OT, because more open or not, it's still actual hockey.

 

[elocomotive]

I also advocate for reducing goalie pad size to the smallest possible while still protecting them adequately. Making the net bigger would increase scoring, but its effect would be a bit mitigated by making plays from behind the net a little more difficult, and in particular wrap-arounds (which are awesome to watch).

Then just make them taller. It would put Matt Murray at a disadvantage, but I'll get over it.

 

[forty_three]

I also advocate for reducing goalie pad size to the smallest possible while still protecting them adequately.

Goalie padding, body armour and gloves especially, really can't shrink as long as players still are using those carbon whips as sticks.

It takes a lot less effort to get a puck up to 100MPH nowadays than it did when Al Iafrate was doing it. And if everyone can shoot it that fast, you need wider surfaces to dissipate the energy the puck exerts when it hits. One of the JV D-men on my son's team had a 93 mph shot when they tested this season. The kid is 15.

The materials are way better now, but they are just keeping up. The old Horse Hair and Leather pads would have to be nearly a foot thick to cushion the blows that these goalies today are taking. My son's chesty has fucking KEVLAR in it. And he still gets the occasional bruise. I can't imagine what those NHL goalies are facing.



The way to increase scoring is not simply putting one group of players at risk or literally moving the goalposts. You have to give more incentive and opportunity to score.

What about playing two periods with the long change? Make icing from your side of your blue line (big time dump and chase races)? Let goalies play the puck again?

 

[elocomotive]

The way to increase scoring is not simply putting one group of players at risk or literally moving the goalposts. You have to give more incentive and opportunity to score.

I'm all for the goalies having better protection, but do you really think if they made the goal 6 inches wider on each side that we would not see an uptick in goals? Not asking if you like it or support it, but your statement seems to say that it would not increase scoring.

 

[forty_three]

I'm all for the goalies having better protection, but do you really think if they made the goal 6 inches wider on each side that we would not see an uptick in goals? Not asking if you like it or support it, but your statement seems to say that it would not increase scoring.

Yes, it will increase scoring. But it's an easy way out.

Kind of like saying that you can reduce drunk driving accidents by murdering people who drink. Technically true, but not the best/only way to solve the problem.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

This quote can be applied so often to the NHL.

How do we solve the Coyotes problem? Throw money at it.
Money didn't work, now what? Move the team again but still inside Phoenix!

 

[Comeds]

I'm all for the goalies having better protection, but do you really think if they made the goal 6 inches wider on each side that we would not see an uptick in goals? Not asking if you like it or support it, but your statement seems to say that it would not increase scoring.

I'd start by moving them maybe 2 inches wider.