Molson and mullets for everyone!

[Paelos]

My favorite hockey game ever was a Flyers game. It was the playoffs in 99-2000 with the game dubbed "The Marathon on Ice." I watched that game for over six hours in my dorm room the first year I was in college. They ended up beating the Penguins with in like a 5th OT period or something equally ludicrous.

No regular season match can touch the playoffs.

[El Gallo]

Honestly, I'd like to see 4-on-4 play in the NHL full time.  They aren't going to make the rinks wider, and they aren't going to call interference strictly ever.  Having 10 skaters at a time with 6"2"+ wingspans on a tiny NHL rink will lead to a wrestling match as a simple matter of geometry.  It would also reduce some of the talent dilution because you could knock a couple guys off each roster.  4-on-4 overtimes with no risk of loss due to the OTL point has produced about the only consistently watchable hockey in the NHL the past few seasons.

I'm fine with shootouts, ties suck.  They would also look good on television, which the league sorely needs.

Edit: the new thread title is A+

[Strazos]

My favorite hockey game ever was a Flyers game. It was the playoffs in 99-2000 with the game dubbed "The Marathon on Ice." I watched that game for over six hours in my dorm room the first year I was in college. They ended up beating the Penguins with in like a 5th OT period or something equally ludicrous.

No regular season match can touch the playoffs.

 

[shiznitz]

4 on 4 would be brilliant.

[WayAbvPar]

Don Cherry, CBC's bombastic hockey analyst, on the resumption of NHL play: "After a year, I got so much to say I can hardly wait to hear myself."

Woohoo! I loves me some Grapes.

[Shockeye]

The Pick That Saves Pittsburgh

The Penguins won the Sidney Crosby sweepstakes, landing the first pick in the NHL Draft shortly after owners voted 30-0 in favor of the new labor deal Friday. Pucks drop on Oct. 5, but new rules abound.

[HaemishM]

Rules changes include:

Smaller neutral zone, making bigger offensive zones
Goal is moved two feet towards the end boards for larger offensive zone
Passes from behind the defensive blue line to the attacking blue line will be considered legal. The center red line will be ignored for purposes of the "two line pass".
Tag-up offsides
A team that ices the puck cannot make a line change before the ensuing face-off
Still have the instigator rule, and now coaches will get fined if someone gets hit with it
Goalies have smaller equipment
Goalies can only play the puck in a small, weird triangle shaped area behind the goal
Goalies playing the puck outside the area get a penalty for delay of game, as well as getting that penalty for freezing the puck too much
Zero tolerance on obstruction/interference calls (We'll see)
Getting called for diving could result in fines

SHOOTOUT

Following a scoreless five-minute overtime, three players from each team participate in the order the coach selects.

Each team takes three shots. The team with the most goals after those six shots is the winner.

If the score remains tied, the shootout will proceed to a "sudden death" format.

Regardless the number of goals scored during the shootout portion of overtime, the final score recorded for the game will give the winning team one more goal than the score at the end of regulation time.

[Shockeye]

Also, 2006 and 2010 All-Star Games cancelled due to Winter Olympics.

Glendale, AZ loses its All-Star game next year and MAYBE will get one in '09.

[WayAbvPar]

Passes from behind the defensive blue line to the attacking blue line will be considered legal. The center red line will be ignored for purposes of the "two line pass".

Not a fan- hell, it took me several months of watching hockey to figure out WTF a 2 line pass was! 20 years later and they are gonna change it? Bastards  :-D

Still have the instigator rule, and now coaches will get fined if someone gets hit with it

AAARRGGH. /beats head against desk

SHOOTOUT

Following a scoreless five-minute overtime, three players from each team participate in the order the coach selects.

Each team takes three shots. The team with the most goals after those six shots is the winner.

If the score remains tied, the shootout will proceed to a "sudden death" format.

Regardless the number of goals scored during the shootout portion of overtime, the final score recorded for the game will give the winning team one more goal than the score at the end of regulation time.

Fucking clown shoes. I have hated every change since they started awarding points for OT losses, like the NHL was the fucking Special Olympics and everyone who competed needed to feel good about trying. Fuck all that. If you can't win in regulation, you better find a way to hold on for a tie (and a point) or get a goal. Otherwise go fuck yourself and take your 0 points like a man.

Glendale, AZ loses its All-Star game next year and MAYBE will get one in '09.

Hockey doesn't belong in the desert. They should have never left Winnipeg!

God, I am cranky this afternoon. Just found out I have to jump through a bunch of bullshit timekeeping hoops to bill my time to different projects. On the fly. No editing afterward (because that would be too fucking easy)- no, I am expected to drop everything and punch a new time session when I switch to supporting a different product (I support about 5).

[El Gallo]

[siren]PITTSBURGH WINS CROSBY[/siren]

LETS GO PENS
LETS GO PENS
LETS GO PENS

[Shockeye]

God, I am cranky this afternoon. Just found out I have to jump through a bunch of bullshit timekeeping hoops to bill my time to different projects. On the fly. No editing afterward (because that would be too fucking easy)- no, I am expected to drop everything and punch a new time session when I switch to supporting a different product (I support about 5).

Do you punch a new time session each time you switch to f13?

[WayAbvPar]

There are seriously like 400 different ways to punch, and one of them is 'Idle Time'. I am tempted to use it.

[Strazos]

Fucking clown shoes. I have hated every change since they started awarding points for OT losses, like the NHL was the fucking Special Olympics and everyone who competed needed to feel good about trying. Fuck all that. If you can't win in regulation, you better find a way to hold on for a tie (and a point) or get a goal. Otherwise go fuck yourself and take your 0 points like a man.

This was already put to rest above; "Holding on for a tie" is lame and makes for boring hockey. Getting an automatic point opens things up. A lot.

[WayAbvPar]

Put to rest by whom? It has always been stupid, and I have always loudly proclaimed it as such.

[Paelos]

Put to rest by whom? It has always been stupid, and I have always loudly proclaimed it as such.

In this case I think we are saying that playing for ties is anti-fun.

[WayAbvPar]

Getting positive feedback for a loss is anti-competition.

[Paelos]

Getting positive feedback for a loss is anti-competition.

So nix the OTL and keep the shootout. I'm fine with that. Hell, just nix OT altogether in regular season games if you want to do that. I just HATE ties.

[Bunk]

I still prefer ties to shootout losses. Nothing like watching a team fight like hell to come back from a defficit in the third, and then lose on what is essentially a coinflip.  Shootouts in hockey aren't quite as bad as they are in Soccer, but they are close.