Eklund: Play Hockey God. Tell me one thing you would change and why? Prizes.

Not the NHL but Canucks related - 1990 NHL draft, Canucks take Jaromir Jagr 2nd overall and Martin Brodeur 18th overall instead of Nedved and Anstoski

As for the NHL, wider ice surface.

i'd make the courts tougher on absolute degenerates.

Legalize all drugs and prostitution. Stop allowing a penalized team to ice the puck. Force them to move it to center ice to dump it in. Would open up play and create more scoring chances for both the pp and pk units.

Fix the point system to make losers points less prevalent. Too many 3 point games. Too many losers points.
There have been teams make the postseason and even win the Stanley Cup where in they have actually been on the losing side of the ledger more than the winning side. See 2011-12 LA Kings
Finished 40-25-17 Wound up as the losing team in 42 of their 82 games.
If the season doesn’t pick up this year, Columbus would make the playoffs having 33 wins, but on the losing side in 37 games. They have 15 loser’s points.
Far too many.

While I’m not wild about 2 point games magically becoming 3 point games, it doesn’t appear that is going away.

I’d make OT 10 minutes. Play it all 4 on 4, as 3 on 3 is too gimmicky, and 4 on 4 is plenty open enough to achieve the desired result of reducing shootouts. You double the length of OT to give teams more opportunities in OT to end games and offset the chances you might lose going away from 5 minutes of 3 on 3.
If you win in OT, you get 2 points. Loser gets none.
If after 10 minutes of 4 on 4 OT the game goes to a shootout, it then becomes a 3 point game and each team gets 1 point. Shootout winner gets that 3rd point.

As dissatisfying as ties might be, the prevalence of loser’s points is at least as much if not more so.
If we are conjuring a 3rd point out of thin air, at least do so less frequently.

Offside reviews cannot disallow a goal unless the offside play led to the goal

Fix the point system to make losers points less prevalent. Too many 3 point games. Too many losers points.
There have been teams make the postseason and even win the Stanley Cup where in they have actually been on the losing side of the ledger more than the winning side. See 2011-12 LA Kings
Finished 40-25-17 Wound up as the losing team in 42 of their 82 games.
If the season doesn’t pick up this year, Columbus would make the playoffs having 33 wins, but on the losing side in 37 games. They have 15 loser’s points.
Far too many.

While I’m not wild about 2 point games magically becoming 3 point games, it doesn’t appear that is going away.

I’d make OT 10 minutes. Play it all 4 on 4, as 3 on 3 is too gimmicky, and 4 on 4 is plenty open enough to achieve the desired result of reducing shootouts. You double the length of OT to give teams more opportunities in OT to end games and offset the chances you might lose going away from 5 minutes of 3 on 3.
If you win in OT, you get 2 points. Loser gets none.
If after 10 minutes of 4 on 4 OT the game goes to a shootout, it then becomes a 3 point game and each team gets 1 point. Shootout winner gets that 3rd point.

As dissatisfying as ties might be, the prevalence of loser’s points is at least as much if not more so.
If we are conjuring a 3rd point out of thin air, at least do so less frequently.
- nyr1980

Just make all games 3 points. If it doesn’t get resolved is regulation split the points 2-1.

The main thing I've been thinking about is incorporating better technology into the game. Blue line and Goal line sensors so games can move along quicker and the flow of the play is not interrupted by video review.

If I was the god of hockey I would reissue the NY Americans franchise and have them play at Madison Square Garden. Then move the NY Rangers franchise to Quebec.

Oh, and I’d smote Sean Avery.

In terms of easiest, I would say bring back icings on Powerplays. Why should the penalized team get to toss it out of their zone so easily?


A better longterm fix is not handing out OTL points, or giving more points for a regulation win. Whatever discourages OT

Get rid of the stupid shootout. By the time the shootout ends we could of had 5 more minutes of hockey. 4 on 4 for 10 minutes, if no one scores, leave it as a tie, nothing wrong with a tie tbh.

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.

In terms of easiest, I would say bring back icings on Powerplays. Why should the penalized team get to toss it out of their zone so easily?


A better longterm fix is not handing out OTL points, or giving more points for a regulation win. Whatever discourages OT
- insomnia183

These are ideas that should be implemented. How do fans get the league to do it or try it...social media campaign?

I see that too.
But clearly the league doesn’t want to do that, so I went with an alternative

Eliminate the instigator rule!!!

Too many sneaky, dirty infractions that the refs miss, and the offender gets off without paying for his crimes. How cool would it be to see guys like Marchand, Neal, etc. get nailed? Now that would be must see TV, and bring the rivalries back. I used watch games just to see what was going to happen, even though either team wasn’t my favorite. That one move would materially change the game for the better!!

Get rid of the stupid automatic penalty for shooting the puck over the glass. It should be the ref’s discretion if it was intentional or not like any other penalty. Hate to see a playoff game decided like this in overtime. Some you can see is obviously unintentional while others look pretty intentional. A lot of infractions are not being called that are way worse then shooting the puck over the glass. I see players cross checking a player in the face and losses teeth get nothing but a player unintentionally shooting the puck over the glass gets a penalty, pure stupity!

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.

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.

Set a conservative cap number for the next 5-10 years. Keep it conservative to protect against situations we are in now but at the same time have it grow very gradually.
Stop with the buyouts, let GM’s who make horrible mistakes July 1rst or whenever pay for it. Stop letting them off the hook.

Hope everyone is doing well! Here’s my idea! I miss the intensity of regular season games! Remember not too long ago when Flyers/ Penguins were a marquee matchup and back in the 90s the Wings / Avalanche?! I would like to see an MLB- like season! Create little 2 game series where the visiting team stays in that city for a couple days. Not every series, just about 4 or 5 a year and division games only! That should create a more intense, playoff style matchup! Stay well everyone. Can’t wait for hockey to start up again!!

Hope everyone is doing well! Here’s my idea! I miss the intensity of regular season games! Remember not too long ago when Flyers/ Penguins were a marquee matchup and back in the 90s the Wings / Avalanche?! I would like to see an MLB- like season! Create little 2 game series where the visiting team stays in that city for a couple days. Not every series, just about 4 or 5 a year and division games only! That should create a more intense, playoff style matchup! Stay well everyone. Can’t wait for hockey to start up again!!

Lose the shoot out for the tie breaker and give each team a 5 on 4 PP/PK. Each team has 2 full minutes to score as many goals as possible with PP. This make OT only four minutes long and more exciting then the shoot out with full team participation. Special teams will become perfected. Games that end in tie split the 3 points in half, 1.5 each. The .5 point could change things up?

the present cap system which has CDN teams more heavily taxed than US teams, decreases significantly the amount on money available to CDN teams to buy players and also decreases likelhood of star players wanting to sign with CDN teams because of taxed wages. this needs to be addressed or CDN teams may never have a real chance to win the stanley cup in future

penalize external entities for providing rumors about trading within the NHL to prevent the potential disruption within the personal life of not only the players but within their home from false information that could potentially create discomfort within the family unit