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Every year they do a camp where they bring the top prospects for the next draft to Toronto and they play a series of games testing out new rules. These rule don't go into effect or anything, but rather just see if things can improve. Here are things they are looking at:
Source:http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=330922
Some of these I don't mind, like having the ref outside the play area, but then again, there could be so much BS from that, and calls coming from outside the play area. The faceoff stuff is a joke, and I would hope they never change that. This isn't street hockey and we are not clashing sticks together saying "N-H-L" and then go at it.
The big thing being the icing rule, well I say leave it. Or put it to the players to decide. Yes there are hard hitting races to the puck, but not many do cause the type of injury they are talking about.
- Having three faceoff dots, one in each zone, down the centre of the rink.
- Using a variation of the faceoff, where a whistle starts play rather than the traditional puck drop.
- If a player is deemed to have committed a face-off violation, he will be required to move back and keep his skates behind a "penalty line" (1' foot further back) to take the faceoff
- Trying both no-touch icing and a hybrid icing rule, where referees can blow the play dead prior to the defending player touching the puck.
- Having the second referee located off the playing surface.
- Not allowing a team to change lines after it commits an offside.
- In overtime, having three minutes of 4 on 4, followed by three minutes of 3 on 3 and finally three minutes of 2 on 2
- Having five players from each team participate in the shoot Out and they shall proceed in such order as the coach selects. If it's tied at the end of the shootout, it goes to sudden death shooting and no one shall shoot twice until all eligible shooters have shot
- Narrowing the shallowness of the net by four inches to create more ice behind the net and enable more wrap-around attempts
- Increasing the size of the crease proportionally in all directions by 3 inches
- Using a variation of the faceoff, where a whistle starts play rather than the traditional puck drop.
- If a player is deemed to have committed a face-off violation, he will be required to move back and keep his skates behind a "penalty line" (1' foot further back) to take the faceoff
- Trying both no-touch icing and a hybrid icing rule, where referees can blow the play dead prior to the defending player touching the puck.
- Having the second referee located off the playing surface.
- Not allowing a team to change lines after it commits an offside.
- In overtime, having three minutes of 4 on 4, followed by three minutes of 3 on 3 and finally three minutes of 2 on 2
- Having five players from each team participate in the shoot Out and they shall proceed in such order as the coach selects. If it's tied at the end of the shootout, it goes to sudden death shooting and no one shall shoot twice until all eligible shooters have shot
- Narrowing the shallowness of the net by four inches to create more ice behind the net and enable more wrap-around attempts
- Increasing the size of the crease proportionally in all directions by 3 inches
Some of these I don't mind, like having the ref outside the play area, but then again, there could be so much BS from that, and calls coming from outside the play area. The faceoff stuff is a joke, and I would hope they never change that. This isn't street hockey and we are not clashing sticks together saying "N-H-L" and then go at it.
The big thing being the icing rule, well I say leave it. Or put it to the players to decide. Yes there are hard hitting races to the puck, but not many do cause the type of injury they are talking about.
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