Stevedude530
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- Dec 21, 2005
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This is my proposal to give the league a makeover.
-1: Re-location: Deal with it. Washington, Florida and Nashville are all moving. Respectively, welcome new clubs to Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Winnepeg.
-2: Re-alignment: The division return to their original names. The former southeast division becomes the "Esposito" division and the Pacific is re-named the "Gretzky" Division. Central becomes Norris, Northwest is Smythe, Atlantic is Patrick, Northeast is Adams. Detroit and Columbus are now in the East to replace Washington and Florida.
-3: TV: Versus keeps it's deal on Mondays and Tuesdays, with a requirement that we are allowed to seek up to two nights a week of game coverage on another [non-ESPN] cable network. Welcome to the NHL On USA Network, airing Wednesdays and Fridays. HDNet keeps Thursdays and Saturdays, and NBC airs games from New Year's Day (A Special Outdoor Game each year) until the end of the Conference Finals in the same timeslot: Sundays at 3:00 P.M. VERSUS and USA Alternate getting Games 1 and 2 of the Finals and the All-Star Skills and Youngstars Game each year. NBC airs the All-Star Game on Saturday in Primetime, as well as Games 3-7 of the Finals. The NHL commits an unspecified amount of money to develop the current crop of players into decent color guys at the end of their careers.
-4: Rules: Instigator and Shootout are gone. From now on, you play 10 minutes of 4-on-4 OT, and if that doesn't work, each team alternates 5-on-4 powerplays until someone scors. The team with the best power-play stats during the game gets to go first in the power-plays. It's simple, you get two minutes, you score, you win. The trapezoid is also gone, but the nets will be moved out 2 feet from their current position to make goaltenders playing the puck more exciting. Also, I take the risk and lose the mesh. Those seats behind the goal are an impossible sell. Anyone who buys a ticket in that area is given a warning before they purchase them. There will be a rule that you have to purchase tickets in that are prior to gameday, to ensure some unlucky family that just walked up and took the tix they wanted gets hurt. The glass will move up slightly. The redline is eliminated, from now on, the neutral zone is fair game to dump in from in all areas.
There's my idea.
-1: Re-location: Deal with it. Washington, Florida and Nashville are all moving. Respectively, welcome new clubs to Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Winnepeg.
-2: Re-alignment: The division return to their original names. The former southeast division becomes the "Esposito" division and the Pacific is re-named the "Gretzky" Division. Central becomes Norris, Northwest is Smythe, Atlantic is Patrick, Northeast is Adams. Detroit and Columbus are now in the East to replace Washington and Florida.
-3: TV: Versus keeps it's deal on Mondays and Tuesdays, with a requirement that we are allowed to seek up to two nights a week of game coverage on another [non-ESPN] cable network. Welcome to the NHL On USA Network, airing Wednesdays and Fridays. HDNet keeps Thursdays and Saturdays, and NBC airs games from New Year's Day (A Special Outdoor Game each year) until the end of the Conference Finals in the same timeslot: Sundays at 3:00 P.M. VERSUS and USA Alternate getting Games 1 and 2 of the Finals and the All-Star Skills and Youngstars Game each year. NBC airs the All-Star Game on Saturday in Primetime, as well as Games 3-7 of the Finals. The NHL commits an unspecified amount of money to develop the current crop of players into decent color guys at the end of their careers.
-4: Rules: Instigator and Shootout are gone. From now on, you play 10 minutes of 4-on-4 OT, and if that doesn't work, each team alternates 5-on-4 powerplays until someone scors. The team with the best power-play stats during the game gets to go first in the power-plays. It's simple, you get two minutes, you score, you win. The trapezoid is also gone, but the nets will be moved out 2 feet from their current position to make goaltenders playing the puck more exciting. Also, I take the risk and lose the mesh. Those seats behind the goal are an impossible sell. Anyone who buys a ticket in that area is given a warning before they purchase them. There will be a rule that you have to purchase tickets in that are prior to gameday, to ensure some unlucky family that just walked up and took the tix they wanted gets hurt. The glass will move up slightly. The redline is eliminated, from now on, the neutral zone is fair game to dump in from in all areas.
There's my idea.