What is your perfect NHL?

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

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.

 

[Master P]

The wood stick idea probably would not go so well. Understand the logic but hard to change what has already been done.

My league, my rules.

 

[Washed Up 29YearOld]

Hockey fans coalesce to discuss watching less games of hockey.

 

[rsteen]

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.

 

[Crow]

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.

 

[Ciao]

So, you are cutting out the Leafs and what other teams.

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.