NHL commissioner for the day

wright · Veteran Member

NHL commissioner for the day

MC Girl · Guru

I liked Nil d's idea...

if a player is in the box durin' O.T. he should not be allowed to take part in the shoot out.

plouf · Guru

Good suggestions wright, especially #6, which gives away your age. I loved that old 1-16 system because you'd get such crazy matchups.

But one thing...the regular season means more now than it ever did back in the 70s and 80s, when you'd have 16 teams making it out of 21, or 12 out of 17. Now we have 16 out of 30, and seedings do still mean something. I don't like the BS rule about the top 3 having to be the division leaders though (especially because it might hurt the Habs this year, since they are in Buffalo's division).

AB Habman · Guru

You're hired Wright

Hockey100 · Veteran Member

I also like #6. This way teams like Montreal and Toronto can meet in the standley cup finals. What a series that would be

Fatherhab · Senior Member

A couple of things I would like to see are:1) Player serves full penalty time- regardless if a goal is scored. 2) No icing of the puck while killing a penalty. 3) how about an import rule- no more than 5 non-north american players per team.

superhab · Guru

GET RID OF SHOOTOUTS! I have been saying it since the NHL decided to adapt them.

davidb · Guru

Im sick and tired of players that are commiting penalties in the last seconds of the OT period. You know what I would do. If a player commits a penalty in the last seconds of OT. Then I would assess a penalty against the team and they lose one shootout player. So they only get 2 players to do a shoot out.

Thrice · Member

just curious as to why you want to get rid of the shoot-outs?

plouf · Guru

davidb wrote:

Im sick and tired of players that are commiting penalties in the last seconds of the OT period. You know what I would do. If a player commits a penalty in the last seconds of OT. Then I would assess a penalty against the team and they lose one shootout player. So they only get 2 players to do a shoot out.

This is something I do agree with. Players get penalties with less than 2 minutes left? They carry over into the next game. Period. It might eliminate some of the garbage that goes on when teams are bitter about losing...

superhab · Guru

Thrice wrote:

just curious as to why you want to get rid of the shoot-outs?

Oh boy dont get me started, ill try to keep it breif for those who have read my antishootout rants before,

When theres overtime theres so much intesity. Teams hitting shooting blocking shots, and after a game where lets just use for example a team is losing and gains momentum after tying the game late. THe whole overtime there buzzing then it stops, everything settles down, and all of a sudden the game losses all this and the game goes to a shootout. There we see players take turns with a breakaway kinda like a skills competition. I guess i would rather have at least a ten minute OT before the shootout was over. Shootouts are not hockey.

Traveling Hab · Veteran Member

If I were commish for a day I would probably embezzle... but that's why they don't let people like me in positions of power.

VOTE TRAVELING HAB IN THE NEXT FEDERAL ELECTIONS!

(for the Americans I will also be running under a false identity. European countries will have to wait a few years while I forge the necessary documents)

barry33 · Guru

I too would get rid of the shootouts. Awarding an extra point foir something as assinine as winning a shootout is stupid. In MY day a tie was just fine thank you. As well:

The penalty for putting the puck over the glass by mistake.,.one word..HUHHHHH?

Instigater rule- would do away with that and bring back the day of having to pay the price for an indiscretion. Bettman seems to be under the illusion that fans do not want fighting in the game..has he been to one lately?

Trapezoid rule- take that the hell out of there too

Reduce the league by 4 teams (at least). The product has become watered down because there are simply not enough world class players to play in a league that size.

Figaro · Guru

1 - wins and loses only (2 pts or none)
2 - discretion for delay of game for puck over glass
3 - more East vs West
4 - fewer teams (2-3), fewer reg season games (72-74)
5 - old division and conference names back (or new ones like Rockets, Howe, Gretzky, etc...)
6 - icing when puck crosses line instead of race
Retire NHLwide #9 (Rocket and Howe) and #4 (Beliveau and Orr) for obvious reasons.

plouf · Guru

If we have to keep the shootouts and OTLs and all that nonsense (I don't see it going away), at least make the point system logical. Teams shouldn't get 3 points combined in games that are tied in regulation, while games that end in regulation only add up to 2. My idea would be:

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

That way every game 3 points are handed out to the 2 teams playing, and teams aren't rewarded for "just making it" to regulation with a tie.

Traveling Hab · Veteran Member

I might be alone on this one, but I would like to see 3 points awarded per game. 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an overtime or shootout win, one for an overtime or shootout loss, and none for a regulation loss.

That way you might actually see teams press really hard at the end of the third in order to get the three points, and teams would still go all out in overtime, since they can only gain. It would take some getting used to (120 points in the regular season would no longer be very good) but it makes a lot more sense than what we have now while keeping the idea of a fast paced overtime. I do believe that the old OT's were quite rubbish.

I would also want 5 players in the shootout so that there is more of a team element (slightly) and less of a random element.

Otherwise I really like just about every idea posted here. My favourite one however is probably impractical. I would absolutely LOVE to see the all star game be the cup champions versus the best of the rest. Unfortunately many of those players would have been on vacation for nearly 2 months, so unlike the days when the playoffs lasted less time, it probably won't work as well.

I also kind of like the idea of 20 teams in the playoffs and the bottom 4 seeds of each conference playing a mini-series to qualify. Nothing compares to playoff hockey, and bringing it to 4 extra cities per year is a good thing, especially in the age of parity.

plouf · Guru

Traveling Hab wrote:

I might be alone on this one, but I would like to see 3 points awarded per game. 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an overtime or shootout win, one for an overtime or shootout loss, and none for a regulation loss.

Well you're not completely alone (see above).

Traveling Hab · Veteran Member

plouf wrote:

Traveling Hab wrote:

I might be alone on this one, but I would like to see 3 points awarded per game. 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an overtime or shootout win, one for an overtime or shootout loss, and none for a regulation loss.

Well you're not completely alone (see above).

Hahaha, you beat me to the punch. Well in that case I should just say I agree.

Mad Habber · Member

I'd bring the Jets back to where they belong. I'd say Quebec too, but they don't have an NHL arena anymore. Le Colisee is just not good enough. Besides I always hated those Nordiques.

I don't really care for the shootouts either. It's hard enough losing in regulation because of a lucky bounce. I hate losing in a shootout because of luck even more.

Only one ref seems the way to go also.

No more instigator, unless really blatant (unprovoked).

I could do also with only 24 teams. No playoffs participation or matchup because divisional seeding.

No team is aloud to retire a # unless the player that wore that sweater is in the HOF. Boston unretires O'Reilly's #, NYI unretires Nystrom's #. It is a joke, that these # are retired. Yeah they were good players, but no better than a lot of other players. Mtl will never retire # for Guy Lapointe, Mario Tremblay, JC Tremblay, Steve Shutt. And in Lapointe and Shutt's case they are in the HOF.

Also unretire Gretzky's # for all the teams he didn't play for. I don't even see why the Blues or the Rangers would retire his #. The only teams that should are Edm and LA. Gretzky may have done "a lot" for hockey in the states, but I really don't see his contributions to the Habs or the Leafs or Sens as being that great.

And last but not least. No matter the outcome, award the Stanley Cup to the Habs every year. That will be all. Let it be written, let it be done, off with their heads and all that kind of jazz.