Your NHL rule change-but only 1

[forty_three]

Allow "jerking off" and "blow job" gestures back in the game. They have been around for a long time and we have enjoyed them and they serve a purpose. If players cannot make those gestures, think of some of the things annoying little players will do. Plus we like them. How many people do you see going to get a soda when someone is on the ice acting like he is jerking a giant penis off? Plus look at his team mates banging their sticks on the ice and bench boards in support.

His name is James Wisniewski, and he approves this message.


My feelings on shootouts / OT / Points is: 2 points for a win. You play until someones wins. Sorry if some young millionaires will be tired.

The rule I'd change is if you score shorthanded, you get your guy back. In fact anyone who scores during a penalty gets their guy back. So if you score four on four, you get your guy back and get a power play.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

+1 for eliminating the shootout. Back to a good old fashioned tie for me.

Never understood what the hell was wrong with a tie. I never minded the damn tie.

Add me to this list.

The tie was just fine. Buttman and his buddies thought that new fans, or just fans in general, wanted to see each game have a winner.

The shootout has gotten to the point where it is deciding playoff spots. Not cool. It needs to go.

 

[IndyAndy]

...The rule I'd change is if you score shorthanded, you get your guy back. In fact anyone who scores during a penalty gets their guy back. So if you score four on four, you get your guy back and get a power play.

I agree.

 

[awaz]

Add me to this list.

The tie was just fine. Buttman and his buddies thought that new fans, or just fans in general, wanted to see each game have a winner.

The shootout has gotten to the point where it is deciding playoff spots. Not cool. It needs to go.

hey, it's not the caps fault that 25% of their games went to a shootout. it was just a really competitive league this year!

 

[dash]

I'd like to see all games worth the same amount of points (my preference would be 3 points using the following format):

3 points - regulation win
2 points - OT/shootout win
1 point - OT/shootout loss
0 points - regulation loss

However, the league won't do this because the current points system keeps teams tightly bunched and in a gate driven league, you need to keep hope alive that your team still has a chance of making the playoffs. The incentive should be to try to win the game in regulation time, not trying to lock things down tighter than a snare drum in the 3rd period.

 

[esls79]

Cull the zebra herd from four back down to three (one with orange, two without)

 

[elocomotive]

That's easy....

The team that finishes first in each conference gets an automatic win that they can apply in the playoffs.

I call this the "Victory in the Bank" system.

Lol - As soon as I read the OP I wondered how long it would take someone to reference this.

2 posts! Haha.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

I would change the playoff format. 1 plays 8, 2 plays 2 & so forth. Forget the division crap.

 

[BGDave]

4) Kill the Cap

Cant speak for anyone else, but I left this one for ya!

 

[elocomotive]

This is awesome that someone started this thread because just two days ago I sent a letter to the NHL with the following rule change I'd like to see. Feel free to copy and paste the letter and send it to them to show that support for this idea is growing!


Dear Gary Beatman,

I have an exciting new idea that I want to bring to your attention. I hear your hockeyball league loves two things – (1) scoring and (2) dense administrative rules that make the game nearly impossible to properly officiate. Well I have an idea that accomplishes BOTH – I call it “A Puck in the Pocket!”

The basic premise is that before each game one player is issued a secret puck that they hide in their hockey kit. At any time during play, this ball can be put into action. You could have a breakaway at one end and a 5-on-3 maneuver at the other. IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT! Not since being unable to afford a roof for a game has such an innovative idea landed in hockeyball. Your owners will make so much money!

Have you imagined it? Great! Now change those boxers and let’s get into those dense procedures that I promised. Here are the rules:

(1) Before the game, the umpire delivers one special RED hockey puck to each team’s rest room.
(2) The coach designates one player to hide the ball somewhere in their uniform and submits a form to let the officials and scoreboard keeper know which player has been designated as the person with A Puck in the Pocket ™.
(3) During any quarter of the game in any location, the designated player may spring the puck into action by removing it from their uniform.
(4) The player designated can be the only player from his team to touch the red puck and normal offsides rules do not apply to the designated player (they can get behind other players!).
(5) The red puck remains in play until the designated player either scores with it or the defensive team sweeps it over the playing court walls.
(6) If a stoppage in play happens or a team stops play with a timeout, the designated player starts with the puck at the faceoff spot next furthest away from the opposition’s scoring cage.
(7) The player for the visiting team that has the secret puck is revealed at the start of the game on the jumbo board in the arena. Imagine the beating that guy is in for! The home team’s designated player remains a secret (unless James Tortarella is coaching your team, that guy never knows when to shut up!).

I hope you like my idea. I’m sure it’s obvious from my extensive knowledge of hockeyball that I’m a longtime fan and not just some con man out to ultimately sue the league after my idea is adopted. Please find my business card enclosed and a prototype of the red puck (pssst – It’s actually a Hot Pocket painted red, there's sadly no h-ball store in my town).

I look forward to stopping by hockey fields in the future to see A Puck in the Pocket In Action ™!

 

[Swamp Dragon]

Mine is a repeal of a fairly new rule that in effect started the new icing rules due to the rash of injuries this rule change caused

GET RID OF THE TRAPEZOID

 

[IPostedWhat]

I'd say get rid of the trapezoid

Why not...

 

[Swamp Dragon]

Pick any one of these:
1) Dump The trapezoid
2) If any player deliberately injures another...he has to sit until player is cleared medically (and independently) to return
3) Kill the shootout
4) Kill the Trap
5) no more expansion..in fact,..contraction is on order
6) No more composite sticks. The flex on some of them make them like whips. Too dangerous to goalies and shot blockers. What the hell would MacInnis have shot with one of these...or Iafrate? And the wooden sticks never broke like these do, which slows up the game.
7) Anyone in the front office, especially the Commissioner must either have played the game or at least understand how it is played This is more than just a business to some people
8) all Commissioners have to be over 5"10"

1) I totally agree
2) doubtful
3) I like that one
4) ditto
5) never going to happen there will be 2 more teams before this decade is over But yes I'd like to see them cap it there
6) I'll sign that petition they don't allow anything but wood in MLB why not NHL
7) but at the end of the day it is a business
8) My despise of the Death Dwarf is well documented

 

[Swamp Dragon]

Mine is a repeal of a fairly new rule that in effect started the new icing rules due to the rash of injuries this rule change caused

My second choice

get rid of the instigator therefore getting rid of the chickenshit agitators like Cooke

 

[Swamp Dragon]

This is awesome that someone started this thread because just two days ago I sent a letter to the NHL with the following rule change I'd like to see. Feel free to copy and paste the letter and send it to them to show that support for this idea is growing!


Dear Gary Beatman,

I have an exciting new idea that I want to bring to your attention. I hear your hockeyball league loves two things – (1) scoring and (2) dense administrative rules that make the game nearly impossible to properly officiate. Well I have an idea that accomplishes BOTH – I call it “A Puck in the Pocket!”

The basic premise is that before each game one player is issued a secret puck that they hide in their hockey kit. At any time during play, this ball can be put into action. You could have a breakaway at one end and a 5-on-3 maneuver at the other. IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT! Not since being unable to afford a roof for a game has such an innovative idea landed in hockeyball. Your owners will make so much money!

Have you imagined it? Great! Now change those boxers and let’s get into those dense procedures that I promised. Here are the rules:

(1) Before the game, the umpire delivers one special RED hockey puck to each team’s rest room.
(2) The coach designates one player to hide the ball somewhere in their uniform and submits a form to let the officials and scoreboard keeper know which player has been designated as the person with A Puck in the Pocket ™.
(3) During any quarter of the game in any location, the designated player may spring the puck into action by removing it from their uniform.
(4) The player designated can be the only player from his team to touch the red puck and normal offsides rules do not apply to the designated player (they can get behind other players!).
(5) The red puck remains in play until the designated player either scores with it or the defensive team sweeps it over the playing court walls.
(6) If a stoppage in play happens or a team stops play with a timeout, the designated player starts with the puck at the faceoff spot next furthest away from the opposition’s scoring cage.
(7) The player for the visiting team that has the secret puck is revealed at the start of the game on the jumbo board in the arena. Imagine the beating that guy is in for! The home team’s designated player remains a secret (unless James Tortarella is coaching your team, that guy never knows when to shut up!).

I hope you like my idea. I’m sure it’s obvious from my extensive knowledge of hockeyball that I’m a longtime fan and not just some con man out to ultimately sue the league after my idea is adopted. Please find my business card enclosed and a prototype of the red puck (pssst – It’s actually a Hot Pocket painted red, there's sadly no h-ball store in my town).

I look forward to stopping by hockey fields in the future to see A Puck in the Pocket In Action ™!

Didn't you used to be Rupert Murdoch

 

[forty_three]

This is awesome that someone started this thread because just two days ago I sent a letter to the NHL with the following rule change I'd like to see. Feel free to copy and paste the letter and send it to them to show that support for this idea is growing!


Dear Gary Beatman,

I have an exciting new idea that I want to bring to your attention. I hear your hockeyball league loves two things – (1) scoring and (2) dense administrative rules that make the game nearly impossible to properly officiate. Well I have an idea that accomplishes BOTH – I call it “A Puck in the Pocket!”

The basic premise is that before each game one player is issued a secret puck that they hide in their hockey kit. At any time during play, this ball can be put into action. You could have a breakaway at one end and a 5-on-3 maneuver at the other. IMAGINE THE EXCITEMENT! Not since being unable to afford a roof for a game has such an innovative idea landed in hockeyball. Your owners will make so much money!

Have you imagined it? Great! Now change those boxers and let’s get into those dense procedures that I promised. Here are the rules:

(1) Before the game, the umpire delivers one special RED hockey puck to each team’s rest room.
(2) The coach designates one player to hide the ball somewhere in their uniform and submits a form to let the officials and scoreboard keeper know which player has been designated as the person with A Puck in the Pocket ™.
(3) During any quarter of the game in any location, the designated player may spring the puck into action by removing it from their uniform.
(4) The player designated can be the only player from his team to touch the red puck and normal offsides rules do not apply to the designated player (they can get behind other players!).
(5) The red puck remains in play until the designated player either scores with it or the defensive team sweeps it over the playing court walls.
(6) If a stoppage in play happens or a team stops play with a timeout, the designated player starts with the puck at the faceoff spot next furthest away from the opposition’s scoring cage.
(7) The player for the visiting team that has the secret puck is revealed at the start of the game on the jumbo board in the arena. Imagine the beating that guy is in for! The home team’s designated player remains a secret (unless James Tortarella is coaching your team, that guy never knows when to shut up!).

I hope you like my idea. I’m sure it’s obvious from my extensive knowledge of hockeyball that I’m a longtime fan and not just some con man out to ultimately sue the league after my idea is adopted. Please find my business card enclosed and a prototype of the red puck (pssst – It’s actually a Hot Pocket painted red, there's sadly no h-ball store in my town).

I look forward to stopping by hockey fields in the future to see A Puck in the Pocket In Action ™!

I will have you know that this is the first thumbs up I have delivered to you since I learned of your ill-advised wager with dash. Bravo.

 

[elocomotive]

I will have you know that this is the first thumbs up I have delivered to you since I learned of your ill-advised wager with dash. Bravo.

LOL - rooting against me, eh?

Dash is in big trouble right now.

 

[TheRobotDevil]

No goal when a puck goes in off a skate leg or other body part. Too many games decided by a judgement call to easy to make it look like an accident

 

[Comeds]

Elocomotive, you had me at secret puck.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Pick any one of these:
1) Dump The trapezoid
2) If any player deliberately injures another...he has to sit until player is cleared medically (and independently) to return
3) Kill the shootout
4) Kill the Cap, slit it's throat, drink it's blood
5) no more expansion..in fact,..contraction is on order
6) No more composite sticks. The flex on some of them make them like whips. Too dangerous to goalies and shot blockers. What the hell would MacInnis have shot with one of these...or Iafrate? And the wooden sticks never broke like these do, which slows up the game.
7) Anyone in the front office, especially the Commissioner must either have played the game or at least understand how it is played This is more than just a business to some people
8) all Commissioners have to be over 5"10"

Repaired #4.

#2 - deliberate is a judgement call

Love #6.

And the over the glass thing has to go.


3rd man in has to go as well.