Kane One
Registered User
As we all know, the defending team is not allowed to make a line change after an icing (except for injured players). What if you are allowed to make a substitution, but the replacement player starts by the red line?
The rule change to disallow line changes was made after the 2004-05 lockout so this isn’t some sacrilegious tradition, and you might think that this idea would reverse the benefits of more goals. However, this will cause a lot more randomness, and debates such as “should he have been taken off the ice” where you’d have to weigh the pros and cons of being short a player for a few seconds until the player makes it into the defensive zone.
Thoughts?
The rule change to disallow line changes was made after the 2004-05 lockout so this isn’t some sacrilegious tradition, and you might think that this idea would reverse the benefits of more goals. However, this will cause a lot more randomness, and debates such as “should he have been taken off the ice” where you’d have to weigh the pros and cons of being short a player for a few seconds until the player makes it into the defensive zone.
Thoughts?