Gary bettman takes his orders from the billionaire owners he works for. Why would they replace him? The owners don’t care if anyone likes him...they just use him as a human shield to insulate themselves from the general public.

Never be mad or frustated by bettman...get pissed at the owners.

1. Bring back the red line and outlaw 2 line passes.


2. Get rid of trapezoid for goalies.

3. 3 pts for reg win, 2 pts for win 1 point for loss in overtime/shootout.

4. Public grading for officials.

5. Suspend players 1 game for drawing phantom high sticks from ignorant official.

6. One ref on the ice, one ref in the video booth and they are on a headset with each other.

7. Put Arizona and Florida in Quebec and greater Toronto area.

8. Ban mike milbury from national broadcasts.

9. Replace Gary Bettman.

10. Have an American tv deal with a company who will broadcast more games per week.
- Shrike

Please...no more suggestions.

1. Get rid of the shootout and go to a 10 minutes OT with ties allowed.

2. Get rid of trapezoid for goalies.

3 Make the puck over glass penalty up to the officials

4 Power plays go the full time even if there is a goal.

5 Offside is nullified if the other team touches the puck in the zone.

6 Goalies serve there own penalties

7 Time limits on video reviews
- cataxpro

Bring back the old divisional schedule that makes you play divisional rivals 7 times a piece (49 games), other division within your conference 3 times (24 games), other division outside of your conference 1 time (8 games) and 1 game vs the one team in the last division.

Furthermore the first two rounds of the playoffs are intradivision series seed 1 vs seed 4, seed 2 vs seed 3.

Playing this format will allow the intensity of many of the old rivalries that many of us grew up with to flourish in the league. Between the Flyers, Rangers, Capitals, Penguins, Devils and other teams could possible play each other 14 times in one season.

Shorten the season. By 8 games.

Every professional sports league has this issue IMO, other than football. Baseball especially.

Tighter sked and less games makes the product better and regular season more valuable.

Second rule would be to get rid of the dumb offside rule where you have to have your skate or skate blade on the ice in order for it to not be offside.

My third rule would be to make all teams serve the full time of their penalties. Penalties would hurt more, be deadlier, and I think thst It would get rid of a lot of the hooking and holding.

Last rule...move Florida anywhere else. Those home crowds are an embarrassment to the league.

I also like 3 pts for Reg win and getting rid of the trapezoid behind the net.
- GrimmdaGoalie

God YES! won't happen, but best idea by a mile.
77 games. 2 againts teams of the other conference (32), 3 againts teams in your conference (45)
71 games would be even better imo. let's dream

- No video review of any kind other than did the puck go in the net and did the puck beat the buzzer are allowed to be done in slow motion. If you can't overturn the call on the ice at full speed, it wasn't wrong enough to deserve to be overturned.
- Widen the ice surface to either international or the hybrid international. Players are too big and fast for a 200x85.
- Get rid of the trapezoid. It serves no purpose.
- Change DOGPOG from a penalty to no line change. Nobody who ever gets penalized for it was intending to do it, they were trying to either clear the zone or ice the puck.
- Get rid of divisional playoffs and go back to division winners plus six. I get that they want "the rivalries," but all it does is consistently force out good teams too early and cause stale matchups in at least one division ever year. (Looking at you, Metro, where yet another WAS/PIT round one was very very possible.)
- Add a third wildcard team to each conference and have them play a home and home total goals series with the second wildcard team.
- No team can have a top three pick more than twice every three years. If it would happen a third time in a row, you move down to #4 and everybody in the way slides up a slot.
- Regular season OT is either a) 5 mins 4v4 then 5 mins 3v3, or b) leave the time as it is but add an over and back rule. Either way, increase shootouts to 5 per side.
- Playoff OT goes down to 4v4 starting in triple (maaaaybe double) overtime, unless the game is a potential elimination game of any kind. Gassing everybody involved when we know there's another game between the two teams coming still is silly.
- Home teams wear white at home until the midway point of the season, then jersey colors flip. The WHL does this and I love it.

What would I CHange?? As a Montreal Canadiens fan for over 50 years I would change our ownership so that the Most Qualified people run the team and not the most French person is hired. Fire Marc Bergevin and Trevor Timmins now!!!!

Don't know why they ever changed it. Go to a game and enjoy a couple of pops and a hot dog. Watch two teams battle it out. If it ends in a tie, so be it. Better than a loser point. The cream will rise to the top
- Hardbalz

agreed.

Gary bettman takes his orders from the billionaire owners he works for. Why would they replace him? The owners don’t care if anyone likes him...they just use him as a human shield to insulate themselves from the general public.

Never be mad or frustated by bettman...get pissed at the owners.
- bruceflyers

He works for the owners and does exactly what they need of him. Therefore, by the only definition that matters, he has done an excellent job.

Eventually, he may continue to do that excellent job when he gets used as a scapegoat.

In order....

1. No more "Offsides", but instituting the "3 line pass rule". We already have the goal line and the red line painted.... time to start using them

2. Scoring on a delayed penalty would no longer negate the penalty

3. Eliminate the "NHL Size" (200'x85') rink and move to the "Olympic Size" (197'x98')rink

Make the draft lottery transparent. Not shrouded in mystery. Make it understandable and live in real time not the apparently rigged bizzare system it is now. Or abolish it all together. If theres even the slightest perception of impropriety, theres a problem.

- No video review of any kind other than did the puck go in the net and did the puck beat the buzzer are allowed to be done in slow motion. If you can't overturn the call on the ice at full speed, it wasn't wrong enough to deserve to be overturned.
- Widen the ice surface to either international or the hybrid international. Players are too big and fast for a 200x85.
- Get rid of the trapezoid. It serves no purpose.
- Change DOGPOG from a penalty to no line change. Nobody who ever gets penalized for it was intending to do it, they were trying to either clear the zone or ice the puck.
- Get rid of divisional playoffs and go back to division winners plus six. I get that they want "the rivalries," but all it does is consistently force out good teams too early and cause stale matchups in at least one division ever year. (Looking at you, Metro, where yet another WAS/PIT round one was very very possible.)
- Add a third wildcard team to each conference and have them play a home and home total goals series with the second wildcard team.
- No team can have a top three pick more than twice every three years. If it would happen a third time in a row, you move down to #4 and everybody in the way slides up a slot.
- Regular season OT is either a) 5 mins 4v4 then 5 mins 3v3, or b) leave the time as it is but add an over and back rule. Either way, increase shootouts to 5 per side.
- Playoff OT goes down to 4v4 starting in triple (maaaaybe double) overtime, unless the game is a potential elimination game of any kind. Gassing everybody involved when we know there's another game between the two teams coming still is silly.
- Home teams wear white at home until the midway point of the season, then jersey colors flip. The WHL does this and I love it.
- freedomgundam

Yes. NHL did this in the 80s. Right now every home Hawks game I go to all season is red vs. white.

I know the NHL is all about parity, but it's time to fix the standings.

3 pts Regulation Win
2 pts OT/SO Win
1 pt OT/SO loss.

The excuse of the record books is weak at best. Saying teams will set new records for points in a season is OK. It's not like many people can tell you who holds the record for most points in a season without googling it... and even then, so what? Do we really hold that in such high esteem that it's ok to tinker with overtime format, video review, eliminating 2 line pass, no touch icing, no changing lines on icing, instigator penalty, etc, etc... but we cant fix the standings so the teams who actually win the game in 60 minutes can be rewarded accordingly.

I know the NHL is all about parity, but it's time to fix the standings.

3 pts Regulation Win
2 pts OT/SO Win
1 pt OT/SO loss.

The excuse of the record books is weak at best. Saying teams will set new records for points in a season is OK. It's not like many people can tell you who holds the record for most points in a season without googling it... and even then, so what? Do we really hold that in such high esteem that it's ok to tinker with overtime format, video review, eliminating 2 line pass, no touch icing, no changing lines on icing, instigator penalty, etc, etc... but we cant fix the standings so the teams who actually win the game in 60 minutes can be rewarded accordingly.
- Udogs

Either that or winning team gets 2 points, no loser point, id be ok with that too.

Like the end if the loser point for OT/SO but I want to build bigger rivalries in the game.

4 team divisions top 2 make they playoffs, no wild cards. You could do an 80 game season. You would play every other non division foe 2 times (56 games) and the balance of the schedule (24 games) are division teams beating the hell out of each other 8 times a season and hating each other.
Playoffs are record based 1 vs 16 2 vs 15 etc.

the thing most i like to see change is that no one in the NHL gets hurt for more than a game and then magical get healed, so many players careers were cut short and saw to many teams collapse from teams missing huge amount of man games or the star players for long terms: lindros, pronger yzerman, super mario, crosby, kayria and so many more. what you the record books look luke with these players not mising so many games.

James Tanner is forbidden to write about anything pertaining to the game of hockey

1. No more shootouts
2. Allow players to police themselves
3. 1 point for a tie, 2 points for a win (same as it used to be)
4. Stop the refs from calling ridiculous penalties, hockey is not the ice capades

Mine is easy...drop current playoff seeding system...should go back to original conference seedings 1-8..I dont like that with the 2-3 bracket within division we have seen TB & Toronto square off in the first round when both teams were top 4 in their conference...also would not be opposed to experimenting with league wide playoff bracket based on 1-16 in standings...I like the thought of possibly seeing a Stanley Cup final within same division a la Boston vs TB, NJ vs NYR or CHI vs Dallas

Have Ron MacClean, and the entire Hockey Night in Canada leadership get on their hands and knees and seek forgiveness from Don Cherry a la Wayne and Garth "we're not worthy, we're not worthy".

get rid of that stupid loser point period. you win you get 2 points you lose you get a big ZERO

Eliminate all the trash southern teams , remove Bettman from the hall of fame, get rid of the hart trophy as it’s dumb, good bye trapezoid, making diving a 5 min major, licking people is a 10 game suspension, get rid of the adidas jerseys as they’re awful.

points for losing, dont care if its OT or shootout, get rid of points for losing. make it one point for a shootout win. Give them incentive to not lose.

thing i dont like about a 3pt game is that a 100 pt season is such a great milestone, but technically 3 points are already up for grab every game

I know the NHL is all about parity, but it's time to fix the standings.

3 pts Regulation Win
2 pts OT/SO Win
1 pt OT/SO loss.

The excuse of the record books is weak at best. Saying teams will set new records for points in a season is OK. It's not like many people can tell you who holds the record for most points in a season without googling it... and even then, so what? Do we really hold that in such high esteem that it's ok to tinker with overtime format, video review, eliminating 2 line pass, no touch icing, no changing lines on icing, instigator penalty, etc, etc... but we cant fix the standings so the teams who actually win the game in 60 minutes can be rewarded accordingly.
- Udogs

1) Completely overhaul the department of player safety and make the suspensions 1) consistent and 2) Actually meaningful.

2) Get rid of the shootout. It is ridiculous.

3) Some formula for cap adjustment based on different levels of income taxes.
- Aetherial

#3 NO the hard cap works, everyone makes money. Its the best salary cap in sports. You want 40 mid level exemptions like the nab? or revenue sharing like baseball, there some teams actually make more money from the cap distributions than they actually spend on their team?

Change playoff format...
I liked playing different teams .Created rivalries that were never there....

NJD -Detroit...
NJD - HURCS

Let Dmen in front of net clear out forwards. ref -discretion.....

More Penalty shots.....If player has only one defender on him

Longer 3x3 overtime ......7 minutes.

SHootouts cannnot come to a stop