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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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A few thoughts:
- agree completely on start times. If it's supposed to start at 7:30, try to make it start no later than 7:35. If they're going to do a bunch of hullabaloo ahead of the puck drop, then figure a way to start it earlier and tell fans to be in the stands early. They always seem to be doing SOMETHING now that drags it out and I don't think it adds a lot of value.
- before looking at changes to the game, figure out what the likely impact is to scoring and whether it's really a good idea from that. Goals are exciting. The league builds highlight packages around them, they want to see records threatened, etc. so why are all the rules more likely to wipe goals off the boards? Yes, Matt Duchene was a country mile off-side one time a decade ago and some chump linesman missed it...does that really mean that we should be going back 45 seconds before a goal to examine whether someone's toe was on the ice? No. Scrap off-side video review and accept that sometimes referees and linesmen will make small errors. If someone screws up like the Duchene goal, then maybe that guy doesn't see a minute of post-season action, but it isn't worth wiping out 50 goals a year.
- Same thing for goalie interference. If it was so imperceptible that the referees didn't catch it in the action then do we really need them to huddle over an iPad for 15 minutes trying to decide whether they missed something or whether Corey Perry will be upset if they call it back? Just count them as goals. The ridiculous thing is that there could be 10 different blatant penalties that weren't called in a shift leading up to a goal, and then they reverse a decision because of incidental contact with the goalie. Personally, I never thought goalies should be off-limits. Like anyone else, if you go too far, then a penalty gets called or you could cost yourself a goal, but some of the little interference on goalies is just gamesmanship - think Ryan Smyth hitting the top of the goalstick to lift up the paddle - and now it would get a goal called off on review. Again, I would stop reviewing goals on that basis.
- Video review to me should be only on things like did the puck go in the net, and on that, the NHL should probably have more consistency. There's often different interpretations of that if the puck is under the goalie or in his glove. While it was against us, I didn't mind the call of a good goal when Campbell's whole hand was in the net. I don't really think you could see the puck on the other side of the goal line, but does it matter? His whole hand was in the net and the puck was in the glove so of course it was in. Also - this use of video is more likely to be at least 50/50 on adding versus deleting goals. The old Sergei Fedorov goal where he hit the back bar would be counted (as it ultimately was and should have been) on video. There will be some where the puck bounced funny off the outer bar and didn't go in. But unlike the previous two points it isn't ONLY taking goals off the board.
- Refs should grow a pair and call diving penalties without ALWAYS calling the infraction too. Sometimes a dive is flagrant and can just be rewarded with a solo trip to the box. I can't remember the last time I actually saw that in the NHL. Whenever they call a dive, they seem to want to send both guys.
- I don't think it'll ever happen but I would like to see every game have the same number of points. I don't hate the idea that after regulation each team gets a point but then there's two more for the winner and a regulation win is worth 3...I think the NHL's argument is that optically it seems like more teams are out of it faster with big numbers, but to me that's just silly. We have 2.5 months left in the NHL season and even under the current system it is pretty clear to me that there are at least 10 teams with no chance of the post season, and it's probably closer to 12 or 14 actually. Are there really a lot of fans of the Canucks and Senators who are fooled right now in to thinking their teams are about to go on a big run and surprise everyone? If not, then there's really no validity to that argument.
- I'd stay on top of goalie equipment too. I believe as soon as the focus is ever taken away from it, the goalies immediately start cheating again. Want to make it fair for the goalies? No illegal curves either, with it the responsibility of the team's equipment staff to check those and some ramifications if there's cheating on either front.
There's probably a lot more but those were the first things that came to mind. That, and a rigourous dedication to calling the actual penalty book and to being consistent around it.
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