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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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and only the team of the player who loses the fight gets penalized, ala Blades of Steel/Ice Hockey.
 
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tarheelhockey said:
The current number of teams doesn’t bother me, but in an absolutely ideal situation it would be lower. A 16-team league would be pretty perfect from the standpoint of concentrating talent so that every team has a star and most teams have multiple stars.

Given that setup:

- 16 teams, 2 conferences, 4 divisions
- 64 game schedule - 6x divisional rivals, 4x conference rivals, 2x other conference
- Top 2 teams in each division play off for the division title. Division winners play off for the conference title, then the conferences play for the Stanley Cup
- Regular season starts in early November, ends in late March. Playoffs start in early April, end in mid-May.

- Standings are a W-L format, straight up.
- 5-round shootouts, like god intended
- Review only to determine whether the puck fully crossed the line, and whether time was on the clock. All other review GTFO
- All Star Game and Winter Classic are a single combined event
- Every team plays 4 games in “neutral” markets, 2 of them overseas. Each team has a domestic market where it plays as the home team every year (e.g. Habs always in Quebec City).
- Maybe not cut off entirely, but distance gambling from league operations including advertising
- Participate in the Olympics. In non-Olympic years, the World Cup is played in October.
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If every team had multiple stars, wouldn't that just average the level of skill out to a point where no team would really stand out? If everyone is great, then nobody is?
 
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If the NHL expands beyond North America their privilege of being able to award the Stanley Cup should be revoked.
 
tarheelhockey said:
The current number of teams doesn’t bother me, but in an absolutely ideal situation it would be lower. A 16-team league would be pretty perfect from the standpoint of concentrating talent so that every team has a star and most teams have multiple stars.

Given that setup:

- 16 teams, 2 conferences, 4 divisions
- 64 game schedule - 6x divisional rivals, 4x conference rivals, 2x other conference
- Top 2 teams in each division play off for the division title. Division winners play off for the conference title, then the conferences play for the Stanley Cup
- Regular season starts in early November, ends in late March. Playoffs start in early April, end in mid-May.

- Standings are a W-L format, straight up.
- 5-round shootouts, like god intended
- Review only to determine whether the puck fully crossed the line, and whether time was on the clock. All other review GTFO
- All Star Game and Winter Classic are a single combined event
- Every team plays 4 games in “neutral” markets, 2 of them overseas. Each team has a domestic market where it plays as the home team every year (e.g. Habs always in Quebec City).
- Maybe not cut off entirely, but distance gambling from league operations including advertising
- Participate in the Olympics. In non-Olympic years, the World Cup is played in October.
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Looks like a 50 game schedule to me on your hypothetical not 64,

3 x 6 games
4 x 4 games
8 x 2 games
 
Switch to the 3 point system and go back to the 1-8 playoff seeding and it will be perfect. No need to change anything else.

Edit: Almost forgot, bring back the white sweaters at home.
 
Salsero1 said:
If every team had multiple stars, wouldn't that just average the level of skill out to a point where no team would really stand out? If everyone is great, then nobody is?
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That definitely would happen, and games would probably be tighter and lower scoring as a result.

That said, we can all tell that players like McDavid, Crosby, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Kucherov, etc are a significant step above all the forwards in the league, and similar with the top D and goalies. Even in a smaller league they will still be standout players. What we won’t have is a team led by Mikael Granlund. The worst team in the league would have, let’s say, Mark Scheifele as their 1C which means there wouldn’t be any 1C getting their wheels blown off, even if they are a clear step below the typical 1C in that league. But hopefully that same team would have Hedman at D or something.
 
- Don't really care about # of teams - if the game is expected to grow, then more skilled players are expected to be developed. If the development curve trends down, then contract teams as necessary.
- ~40% of teams make the playoffs; no Wild Cards, top to bottom seeding preferable.
- 64-76 games, starting in November and ends in April-May.
- 3v3 OT with illegal zone re-entry rules. 5 round shootout with unique shooters for the first 5; then any player can be reselected afterwards but not twice in a row.
- Trapezoid change: invert the illegal area, forcing goalies who want to play the puck to have to skate further out to the corners to intercept.
- No more moving digital ads; only static images.
- Change referee system to 3 on ice and 1 video review ref in-house per game.
 
Are the NHL today enough?

Maybe a Canadian professional league?

Seven Canadian NHL teams eight others from Canada also.

Fifteen teams of a Canadian professional league.
 
Go back to the old ways of the Adams, Norris, etc...Play each one of your division opponents 7/8x a year...Bring back nasty rivalries.
 
  • Season is 82 games.
  • All games are worth two points: Two points for any kind of win, zero points for any kind of loss, and one point each for a tie (which is declared after five minutes of five-on-five OT play). Eliminate 3-on-3 play and shootouts.
  • Reduce games against the other conference, to increase the number of divisional games. No more requirement that every team play in every building each season.
  • 16 teams make the playoffs, the top four in each division. No wild cards. Playoffs are 1v4 and 2v3 in each division. Division semifinal, divisional final, conference final, Stanley Cup Final.
  • Keep the divisions as they are, but rename them (Atlantic > Adams, Metropolitan > Patrick, Central > Norris, Pacific > Smythe)
 
Season of 70 games.

Playoffs start in April, end in May.

20 teams.

East

Montreal
Toronto
Boston
NYR
DET

Call it what you want

WAS
PIT(not entirely convinced of this location when they don't have a superstar)
PHI
TBL(see PIT comment)
Miami(see above)

Should FL or PIT teams start to fail once they have losing teams, then put in another NY and/or TOR area team. Not crazy about the idea of two FL teams, but they are well run right now - that can change. The real proof of a hockey market is how well they survive when the team sucks.

Central

DAL
CHI
MN
STL
CO


West

CAL
EDM
VAN
LAK
SJS(Bay area is too big, too rich, not to have a team)


Hockey would be WAY better, as would the level of play in the AHL, KHL, SHL, Liiga, etc. Enough of hockey in June!
 
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57special said:
Season of 70 games.

Playoffs start in April, end in May.

20 teams.

East

Montreal
Toronto
Boston
NYR
DET

Call it what you want

WAS
PIT(not entirely convinced of this location when they don't have a superstar)
PHI
TBL(see PIT comment)
Miami(see above)

Should FL or PIT teams start to fail once they have losing teams, then put in another NY and/or TOR area team. Not crazy about the idea of two FL teams, but they are well run right now - that can change. The real proof of a hockey market is how well they survive when the team sucks.

Central

DAL
CHI
MN
STL
CO


West

CAL
EDM
VAN
LAK
SJS(Bay area is too big, too rich, not to have a team)


Hockey would be WAY better, as would the level of play in the AHL, KHL, SHL, Liiga, etc. Enough of hockey in June!
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I’d eliminate the Wild and put in some other teams.
 
Golden_Jet said:
I’d eliminate the Wild and put in some other teams.
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MN sells out even when they miss the playoffs, has a long hockey tradition, and is the best hockey state in the USA. I know that you are pissed that i left out Winnipeg, who has had a great year and is a hockey town, but Metro twin cities has 4 times the population, WPG has trouble filling seats even with a winner, and players don't want to live there. MN might not be on the top of every players list, but a lot of NHL'ers enjoy being here, and generally they don't have a problem signing players.
 
24 teams.

42 games. ideally every team plays 1 weekday game and 1 weekend game per week.

win and loss only. no ties, no loser point.

2 conferences. no divisions.

1-8 playoff seed.
 
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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Not enough National Anthems
 
Stop the game management by the refs. Make the refs be available to the media after the game.

Increase the size of the rink. Seats would have to be removed so this would never happen as it would negatively impact revenue.

Have an over and back rule in OT.
 
57special said:
MN sells out even when they miss the playoffs, has a long hockey tradition, and is the best hockey state in the USA. I know that you are pissed that i left out Winnipeg, who has had a great year and is a hockey town, but Metro twin cities has 4 times the population, WPG has trouble filling seats even with a winner, and players don't want to live there. MN might not be on the top of every players list, but a lot of NHL'ers enjoy being here, and generally they don't have a problem signing players.
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Not a jets fan, but sure lol.
 
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