What Stupid Or Unreasonable Thing Do You Want To See In Hockey/NHL?

[Drake1588]

No salary cap. FIFA-style transfer fees. Relegation. Basically unregulated capitalism. In odd years.
In even years, a hard salary cap tied to annual revenues.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Teams play 60 minutes, at the end of which they play five more minutes, and then the game ends in a tie. You get two points for a win, zero points for a loss, and one point for a tie. Regular season.
Unlimited sudden death in the playoffs.
Five on five under all circumstances at all times.

No Power Plays or short handed goals????

 

[Nizdizzle]

No conferences or divisions for playoffs. Seed 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, 3 vs 14...etc. Unreasonable and probably stupid because of the crazy travel costs you could get in some matchups (or an unfortunate situation where a team had to play 3 straight rounds against teams on the other side of the continent).

and I dunno, maybe if they would put Bruins fans in some sort of cage or dungeon for a non-specific amount of time.

 

[Raymoondo]

All the players to wear a mic so viewers can listen to what they're saying throughout the game.

 

[BM14]

Teams play 60 minutes, at the end of which they play five more minutes, and then the game ends in a tie. You get two points for a win, zero points for a loss, and one point for a tie. Regular season.
Unlimited sudden death in the playoffs.
Five on five under all circumstances at all times.

I like the cut of this guy's gib.

 

[blundluntman]

Two teams teaming up to win champsionships/tank for top picks and swap roles every 5-10 years, lopsided trades galore, 2 cap spaces, and then 3 teams get together to beat the two teams and it keeps compounding until its basically just the all stars of the west vs east and then teams start sabotaging and hiring spies and infilitrate other teams plans until Canada finally builds a wall and makes their own mega team and that's how world war 3 started everybody.

Have you considered a career in writing?

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

No more lockouts.

 

[Name Nameless]

A september cup, seeding based on last years regular season results. Add a team for Seattle, and seed that one 32, so the math works. Then just single-game series, 1 vs 32 , 2 vs 31 , and so on, no conferences. Lowest ranked team gets the home game in the first two rounds, and then the highest from there.

Then you can go for the"double" if you win it. Or not.

 

[Tuna Tatarrrrrr]

Not being the No Hitting League anymore.

 

[Hungry]

Games played as 4 on 4 hockey

 

[SUX2BU]

Bettman playing a shift with and against every team once ...

 

[Enjoy i24 Traffic]

goalies can no longer freeze puck

faceoffs more like basketball where the ref just throws puck up into the air

extend the glass upwards in all sections so we have less stoppages for puck out of play

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

I would happily watch an entire season of 3 on 3 hockey. It's beautiful sport.

 

[GodEmperor]

A return to wooden sticks for all players, to correspond with the constant demands for smaller goalie equipment.

How about 1 game played with all equipment from the 70s (except helmets)?

 

[shtorm2005]

Would be fun to see crowd's reaction if they show, during the commercial break in MTL, Marc Bergevin in the money shower.

Spoiler

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Removal of all physical contact except puck to stick or puck to goalie.
Removal of salary cap, let the minnows choke on their poverty whilst the industrialists thrive.
No game starts past 7 p.m. Eastern.
Number of teams in playoffs down to 3 per conference, top team gets a first round bye, other teams fight it out.
No-trades and no-movements are gone. Player security is tied uniquely to performance.
Free agency starting at draft, with the team that would draft player given first opportunity to sign the player.
Elimination of RFA. UFA after 4-5 years from start of career. (Drafted as a UFA, then UFA again 4 years later, no team control at all.)
Elimination of all individual awards, replaced by team-focused awards based on defensive zone play.
Goalies may no longer catch or freeze pucks, puck must be returned to play after a save.
Ads on jerseys/uniforms.
Exotic dancers of all gender identities for in-game entertainment.
Salary Cap set at $100,000,000 with cap floor at $70,000,000.
Quebec City gets a new team.
Hartford gets a new team.
Atlanta gets a new team.

That should be enough shakeup for one season.

 

[Name Nameless]

Bigger goals to make up for the bigger goalies with more equipment. 200 X 150 cm instead of todays (180 X 120).

 

[Rubi]

Duels.

If one player feels wronged by another, the aggrieved player can skate up to the offending player, slap that player in the face with a glove (would love to see this ) and challenge them to a duel.
Both players would then proceed to center ice, stand back to back, and then skate 25 paces with a puck on their sticks and then turn and fire their puck at the opposing player. Honor satisfied.

 

[pabst blue ribbon]

Have the regular season 8-10 games shorter, it's unreasonable because the owners would never let it happen

 

[Thrasymachus]

I dont care if it delays games

Let the panthers fans have the damn rats

 

[LMFAO]

Id prefer to see players fight like real man than the pathetic pushing and shoving we see nowadays...

 

[Woodrow]

multi pucks

 

[Rubi]

Id prefer to see players fight like real man than the pathetic pushing and shoving we see nowadays...

Nothing more manly than a good old fashioned duel. See my above post.

 

[Rubi]

I dont care if it delays games

Let the panthers fans have the damn rats

Live or dead rats? Live ones thrown on the ice would be real interesting.
Every team's fans should be allowed to throw the occasional rat on the ice.. Although Edmonton and Calgary would be at a distinct disadvantage as we don't have any rats in the province.

 

[ManofSteel55]

I'd like to see a clean hit not turn into a pansy fest on the ice.

Far fetched, I know.

It's never happened before, won't start now.