Just some links about some alternate rules that the NHL was looking into earlier this year:
Among the rules I think are worth considering:
- A team who commits an intentional offside cannot change
- No-touch icing (I play defense and HATE chasing the puck when you’ve got a forward bearing down behind me)
- Having goalies switch ends in OT to give the teams the long change
- Shallower nets – giving more room behind the goal
- Using plexiglass on the top of nets to facilitate video reviews
One of the changes I’d like to see, other than the elimination of the 2-minute puck-over-the-glass penalty, is that players who receive a high-sticking penalty, boarding penalty, or kneeing penalty, should be forced to sit the full time of their penalty.