Zone Exit Pick and Roll?

I've sort of been paying attention to the annual general managers meeting, largely due to the fact that I was hoping for actual, meaningful change to the point-allocation system -- one that decentivized the shootout, and incentivized winning games in regulation. I was also holding out a bit of hope that the sides would consider three-on-three either in lieu of or after four-on-four.

Of course, neither of those things seem likely to be address. Ken Holland's three-on-three argument has, once again, lost the groundswell support it seemed to be building up in recent months.

So, what's the league looking to change? For one, they're considering at least a tweak of overtime, forcing both sides to work with the long change. They're also making the recommendations to the competition committee and Board of Governors on the movement of hash marks at the faceoff circle.

But, there was one other thing that Elliotte Friedman sort of dropped -- apparently from Brian Burke, and on the recommendation of Mathieu Schneider of the NHLPA:

This seems to coincide with Schneider's overall approach on behalf of the players -- one that tries to slow things down a touch.

This particular recommendation strikes me as kind of an odd one, though. It's basically legalizing interference, but only in certain aspects -- specifically, as a unit tries to avoid the forecheck and leave the defensive third of the ice. Kind of harkens back to the pre-2004 lockout days, I guess.

I don't know how stuff like this (and cosmetic stuff, as Scott Cullen noted, like face-off alterations), took center-stage over actual, pressing issues.

Thoughts?

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