Thought experiment: What if offside rule was changed to....

[PistolPete]

Simply you can't pass from behind own defensive blue line across offensive blue line into offensive zone?

So passing across red line into NZ would still be allowed

The difference:

Once the red line is gained, the entire offensive half of the red line is open.


The one issue I can see is teams backpedaling towards the red line to regroup. Perhaps a caveat to the rule would be no passing or carrying the block back over the blue line after entry.

TO BE CLEAR I AM NOT ARGUING this should be the new rule, just a little game and thinking how a tweak in a rule would alter the game (I've always been fascinated by the butterfly effect a simple rule change can cause)

 

[ole ole]

Simply you can't pass from behind own defensive blue line across offensive blue line into offensive zone?

So passing across red line into NZ would still be allowed

The difference:

Once the red line is gained, the entire offensive half of the red line is open.


The one issue I can see is teams backpedaling towards the red line to regroup. Perhaps a caveat to the rule would be no passing or carrying the block back over the blue line after entry.

TO BE CLEAR I AM NOT ARGUING this should be the new rule, just a little game and thinking how a tweak in a rule would alter the game (I've always been fascinated by the butterfly effect a simple rule change can cause)

Floating blueline would be way ahead of this.

 

[SEALBound]

Jesus. No.

Leave off-sides alone. Of all the problems the game and league has, off sides isn't one.

That goes double for the offsides review whiners.

 

[wetcoast]

Simply you can't pass from behind own defensive blue line across offensive blue line into offensive zone?

So passing across red line into NZ would still be allowed

The difference:

Once the red line is gained, the entire offensive half of the red line is open.


The one issue I can see is teams backpedaling towards the red line to regroup. Perhaps a caveat to the rule would be no passing or carrying the block back over the blue line after entry.

TO BE CLEAR I AM NOT ARGUING this should be the new rule, just a little game and thinking how a tweak in a rule would alter the game (I've always been fascinated by the butterfly effect a simple rule change can cause)

I'd much have the floating blue line back to the red line after it's gained like in ball hockey it would give teams more room to recycle on offense and make it harder for defenders to just clear the blue line.

While we are at it 3 on 3 no team can take back behind the red line it sucks as does 3 on 3.

 

[Oilslick941611]

its a tough problem to solve, but i hate that toe cap over the line kills the play. Offsides has grown into a nuisance call.

The only answer i can think of is to give the refs and linesmen more discretion on whether or not a player gained an advantage by being over the line... and thats not ideal, because already have issues calling the rule as it stands now.

It should be a full skate length over the line for an offside call. Calling a goal off because a player entered the zone a millisecond or two before the puck on the opposite side of the play is not good for the game.

 

[PistolPete]

Jesus. No.

Leave off-sides alone. Of all the problems the game and league has, off sides isn't one.

That goes double for the offsides review whiners.

Miss the original post?

Wasn't asking if it should be done or not but as a thought experiment because I am intrigued by the butterfly effect a rule change can have and was curious what people envisioned with such a definition

Having said that, the current offside rule is indeed a horrible rule that ruins the game ( not really but I just wanted to indulge the HFBoards hyperbole fornshitsnand giggles- but it is a lousy rule)

 

[PistolPete]

I'd much have the floating blue line back to the red line after it's gained like in ball hockey it would give teams more room to recycle on offense and make it harder for defenders to just clear the blue line.

That is one aspect of the offside rule I do like. I hate the backtracking in any sport.