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82gp.
30gp (bye Winnipeg and Utah).
16 playoff teams.
Cap at 100 mil.
Max contract at 12.5.
A commissioner that’s not Gary Bettman that can help the sport grow and be more profitable without the ridiculous betting sites.

Also Reduced buyout penalty on contracts to a max of 3 years. Still pay out over x number of years but buyout penalties are preventing teams from making improvements after the fact.
 
Start and finish the season earlier. Cup awarded around the first week in June.

1 to 8 playoff seeding.

3-2-1-0 point system.

Draft lottery: Each team is awarded a ball for every year they have missed the playoffs in the last 6 years. Removes the incentive to be the worst in the league, gives a reasonable timeframe for a rebuild.

No ads on helmets or jerseys. No moving digital ads. No gambling ads during the game or gambling discussed by intermission talking heads.

Officiating to be somewhat consistent. Stop the game management. Consistent penalties for dangerous plays like headshots and slewfoots. Hawkeye system for offside and get rid of the offside review.
 
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How ever many games it would take to eliminate the back to back would make sense. I imagine it’s only 6-7. Not a lot of fun watching your team drag ass with a shitty goaltender.

Number of teams - don’t care

Number of playoff teams is fine but 1-8 was better.
 
cowboy82nd said:
So, you are cutting out the Leafs and what other teams.
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Cutting out the Leafs, Habs, Rangers, Bruins, Blackhawks, Red Wings, Flyers and another team or two entirely from the present-day NHL and leaving them to create their own league -- the same way the NHL itself was created in 1917 when four of five teams defected from the NHA -- is kind of appealing.

Separate the wheat from the chaff, financially speaking.
 
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- 64 Games
- 32 Teams
- Only play for Eastern and Western Conference championships within the NHL.
- 8 + 8 playoff structure
- Make winning the conference championships matter (money, revamp the trophies.)
- Stanley cup is played for by international tournament of the two conference champions, plus top 2 KHL teams, plus championship teams from NLA, SHL, DEL, Liiga with a 4 and 4 bracket structure with the top 2 NHL and KHL teams each with own bracket to start (so you always have chance of NHL/KHL v NHL/KHL for final four.)

Want an international tourney to matter? Put the Cup in play.
 
I think a regular, restricted schedule would be good. For example, say every team played Tue, Thu, Sat every week. No games on the other days. It's hockey night! This would raise the NHL's profile for casual fans I think.
 
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We are witnessing it. High degree of parity, a league healthy enough to support more expansion over the last decade. Good competition of talent at the top end
 
Gary Bettman and the NHL Board of Governors are forced out after I tug at everyone's heartstrings by telling everyone that hockey is too violent and PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN. I smoothly convince everyone of this by using the most hackneyed feel good talking points imaginable. After I am put in charge, I declare a new world order of professional hockey, and proclaim myself to be the ultimate hockey overlord. No rules committee, no board of governors, no nothing....just me with absolute power.

-80 games, 4 divisions, 24 teams, 4 teams from each division make the postseason. I decide which teams are abolished in The Great Contraction
-Divisional playoff format is abolished. Playoff matchups are decided via random lottery style drawing but higher seeds still have home ice advantage
-Ad breaks will take place between periods ONLY. They will all just be vomited out at once so the pansy owners can get their precious little ad revenue. No ads on jerseys, helmets, or anywhere in the arena unless they look like they did in 1993 (Pizza Hut Delivers!) since that was a superior time period. All studio intermission shows are gone forever--no one needs a bunch of talking heads blah blah blah-ing about what we just saw for the last 20 minutes, especially today when you can just look up that shit on your phone. Any team caught using modern sponsors loses all of their upcoming draft picks and the owner will be forced to eat a giant plate of steamed boogers at gunpoint
-No third man rule, no instigator, no game misconduct for secondary altercation, no restrictions on fighting in the last few minutes of the game. Fighting is encouraged as much as possible, and all fans who complain about fighting are banned for life and sent to forced labor camps where they wear dunce caps and are savagely beaten
-Players who turn down invitations to fight are given automatic game misconducts and their pay is reduced by 80 percent
-Lady Byng trophy is replaced by a trophy rewarding the player with the most penalty minutes. The Lady Byng trophy will be slowly lowered into a vat of acid. This event will be televised to the roar of the approving crowd.
-No mandatory visors. You can wear one if you want, but if you leave it on while fighting you get an automatic game misconduct and your pay is reduced by 80 percent
-Headshots are encouraged as much as possible. Concussion protocol eliminated. No suspensions for dirty hits. Keep your head up!
-Linesman who break up fights too early or before they have a chance to get going will be forced at gunpoint to look me in the eye while cutting off their pinky yakuza style.
-Only goals are reviewed. Refs have 30 seconds to make up their mind.
-Ref mics taken away so they can't announce penalties. PA announcers will do that--in the meantime, lazy fans can learn the signals
-Home teams wear white, road teams wear dark, no exceptions. No alternate jerseys, no special occasion jerseys, no political jerseys.
-Guaranteed contracts gone forever. Players will be paid based on how hard they practice and play, and the measures that they take to stay violent.
-No testing for any illegal substances except weed. If you are caught using weed you are banned for life. If you are caught using steroids or cocaine, you are given a raise and a complimentary filet mignon dinner, however if you are arrested that's on you.
-Teams will no longer employ the following: PR departments or media coaches of any kind, or HR departments. Completely useless. Broadcasters can stay and are given free reign to express themselves as much as possible unless they criticize violent play, in which case they will be immediately banned for life.
 
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Oddbob said:
750 teams, so that each player can have their own team.
-9 ads on the front of the jersey, with the team logo small and on the side of the jersey under the arm.
-Video replay for everything. ex- Linesman dropped the puck 1mm to the wrong side, 11 minute replay to get it right.
-If you hit minus 5 in any game, you get a 1 game suspension, but a $250,000 bonus for the special achievement.
-Flat cap of $300 million, just to make it fair.
-Gary Bettman handles all league news for every team with a press conference for any and all news.
-1 goalie can have equipment as big as they want, but if a team does this, the other goalie has to play with 1950s equipment. (including lack of helmet)
-Any players that are dumb as a stump, have to wear a special dunce helmet with massive padding to protect their noggin.
-Every time the whistle goes, there is a 1 minute ad for a gambling site. Must be the same ad used each time.
-Teams can have 10 players that can approach the ref when calls are made. 10 from each team should be enough to tell the ref what he did wrong or right.
-Each and every goal shall be reviewed no less than 5 minutes, and since we are waiting, five 1 minute gambling ads shall play. (again same ad each time)(no need for fans to see replay of goal, that is unimportant)
-Every big hit, incurs a forced fight. Loser gets kicked out of game.
-Stanley Cup winner, rides a team bus to each losing city to rub it in. They don't get summer break until each city has been visited.
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Poetry. Oh my God this is amazing
 
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Actually right now with training camp started, most teams are probably have an A squad and a B squad... so that's perfect! Lock that in and you have your 64 team league! Every team makes the 'post season' but instead of playoffs it's June Madness!
 
Oddbob said:
750 teams, so that each player can have their own team.
-9 ads on the front of the jersey, with the team logo small and on the side of the jersey under the arm.
-Video replay for everything. ex- Linesman dropped the puck 1mm to the wrong side, 11 minute replay to get it right.
-If you hit minus 5 in any game, you get a 1 game suspension, but a $250,000 bonus for the special achievement.
-Flat cap of $300 million, just to make it fair.
-Gary Bettman handles all league news for every team with a press conference for any and all news.
-1 goalie can have equipment as big as they want, but if a team does this, the other goalie has to play with 1950s equipment. (including lack of helmet)
-Any players that are dumb as a stump, have to wear a special dunce helmet with massive padding to protect their noggin.
-Every time the whistle goes, there is a 1 minute ad for a gambling site. Must be the same ad used each time.
-Teams can have 10 players that can approach the ref when calls are made. 10 from each team should be enough to tell the ref what he did wrong or right.
-Each and every goal shall be reviewed no less than 5 minutes, and since we are waiting, five 1 minute gambling ads shall play. (again same ad each time)(no need for fans to see replay of goal, that is unimportant)
-Every big hit, incurs a forced fight. Loser gets kicked out of game.
-Stanley Cup winner, rides a team bus to each losing city to rub it in. They don't get summer break until each city has been visited.
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You put some thought into this.
More than bettman does.
 
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A few changes:

-shootouts limited to the ASG because ending the game on a skills competition sucks.

-Test out expanding rink width to international size.

-drop games from 82 to 74-76

-more 7pm starts. Mainly on weeknights.

-Remove the visor rule.

-Fix the DOPS and how they discipline based on the team they play for instead of the bonehead move they pull. No being too big doesn’t give you an excuse to still hit a guy in the head with your elbow.

-Bring back the two line pass.

-Remove the instigator rule (within reason).

-ASG goes back to a conference vs conference configuration where winning team gets home ice in the SCF. Also skills would go back to the 90s style when it was actual skill and not a bad comedy act.

-Pull the ESPN deal unless they show more games on national TV instead of the garbage excuse of ESPN+ they use.
 
daver said:
I don't think many argue that an 82 game season is too long and ending in mid-June is too late.

Maybe some think that only half the teams making the playoffs is too little.

Maybe four best-of- 7 playoff series is too much.

What would your NHL look like?

How many teams?

How many games?

How many playoff teams?
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Start earlier and end earlier on the season. 82 games is fine. 4 divisions, top-4 make the playoffs, no WCs. Go back to named divisions. The Cup gets handed out no later than mid-May.

I think we can handle 36 teams. The NHL needs to do the right thing and stop stringing QC along. They aren't a viable market. They're never going to be a viable market. Expansion should be focused to unrepresented major markets and large population areas with no local teams. (That primarily means the US Midwest and South, maybe international?)

Bring back ties, ditch gimmick OTs, eliminate the "loser point." Neck protection and face shields are mandatory.

I'm sure I will think of something else later.
 
32 teams
4 divisions of 8
4GP vs your division (28 GP)
3GP vs your conference (24 GP)
1GP vs other conference (16 GP)

*alternate home team every year
68 game schedule. To get to an even 70 GP, I would also allow for 2 additional GP between your closest geographical teams. Ex, Columbus plays Pitt and Detroit.

For games against your division, emphasize series type scheduling. Ex, NYR @ NYI on Friday, then play again Sunday.

Season starts earlier, and the all star break occurs earlier as well. The all star game happening just before Christmas, then from Dec 25 - Jan 8, no games occur across the league EXCEPT for the Winter Classic on Jan 1st. The world juniors are promoted by the NHL. On Winter Olympic years, there is no All Star game. ASG is East vs West, and rosters are not required to have reps from every team.

Once a month, there is a weekend day (Fri/Sat/Sun) where all teams play, with staggered starts. Not sure if possible but hey.

Playoffs will be seeded 1v8, 2v7.. with no reseeding.

Allow for cap space do be traded (up to 10% of the total cap value. If the Leafs want to spend 1.10x the salary cap, they can trade picks for Cap space that the Sharks aren’t using.

Remove the draft lottery. Worst team picks first.
 
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