Comments on: GM Meetings: Removal of trapezoid gaining some support

By: bensawesomeness

bensawesomeness — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:35:50 +0000

I like your guy’s ideas better anyway

By: bluesfan72

bluesfan72 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:17:13 +0000

To the occasional hockey viewer the game is confusing enough. I think having different rules for each conference would only make it seem more confusing. I’m all for getting rid of the trapezoid, though.

By: pens919209

pens919209 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:57:42 +0000

As you said, in baseball there’s not as much inter-league play as there is inter-conference play in the NHL. Having the rules change for teams on such an arbitrary basis would probably yield misleading results – either good or bad. Imagine playing one night against a Western Conference team where there’s no trapezoid but the icing rule is still a touch-up one, then the next night playing an Eastern Conference team where there’s hybrid icing – but hey! – the trapezoid is back. It’d be confusing and frustrating for the players, coaches, and the fans.

Try it in the AHL as itsallniceonice says, or test it in pre-season games. That’d be the way to go with these changes.

By: itsallniceonice

itsallniceonice — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:53:50 +0000

They just need to actually agree on something and test it out in the AHL like they have before.

By: bensawesomeness

bensawesomeness — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:33:27 +0000

So baseball has the DH in one league and not the other, along with Bean balls in one and not the other.

I always thought they should try out the rule changes with the conferences each getting one rule and not the other, and playing it out over 1 season to see how it goes. I know baseball is vastly different than hockey, and the East and West play more often than AL and NL, but i always thought it was a really good way to see if things are better with or without a rule, or even try it in the preseason.

For example, East Conference gets no-touch icing, West gets the Trapezoid removed ( or Fighting, this stupid red line idea, or 10 min overtime with 4 on 4 or 3 on 3 )

Dont have to throw everything away for it, you get a solid amount of data and results from it, and nobody cries if you change it back after a season