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Forum: NHLMar. 12 at 10:22 a.m.
Thread: The NHL needs to change these things
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jonh514</b></div><div>1) Change the draft lottery to favor compensating the teams who just miss the playoffs more than the teams who tank, or at least compensate them all equally

2) Lower the maximum compensation for offer sheets to 3 1st round picks so we get more superstar offer sheets (lower everything by about 25% across the board)

3) Implement a 1 series waiting period for players on LTIR to rejoin their teams in the playoffs

4) Find a way to factor the local effective tax rate into the Salary Cap. Currently the system is extremely biased

What do you all think? What would you change?

Edit:

Community suggestions:

1) Give up on the tax adjustments. There is a lot of evidence that it's actually a non-issue to the players

2) Expanded OT

3) 3 points for regulation win, 2 points for OT/SO win, 1 point for OT/SO loss

4) Play-in playoff round

5) Limit video review to not impact the excitement and momentum of the game as much

6) Get rid of National Anthems (controversial to others)

7) Get rid of broadcasting blackouts

8) Start games on time

Thank you to the Mods for leaving this post up!</div></div>

1) I've been on here several times advocating for the Gold drafting system, that the PWHL just implemented for their league. We still want to give bad teams the top picks, while disincentivizing tanking and keeping the end of the regular season relevant for all teams. The bad teams still should get the best players to help them not be bad, instead of helping out the teams just outside the playoffs one year.

2) This would be interesting but I'm not sure if it would actually increase the amount of offer sheets.

3) I like this, but I might add an exception if the player was ineligible to come off IR at the end of the regular season but is eligible at the start of the playoffs, due to the requirement that a player must spend 10 games or 24 days on LTIR.

4) I don't think that matters that much.

Community Suggestions:

2) Regular season OT should be 10 minutes 3v3. I don't think you can do any more than that without Zamboniing the ice. Maybe you do a shootout after that, maybe you call it a draw. Also get rid of the forfeited loser point when you pull the goaltender.

3) Completely agree

4) Completely disagree. I think it's nice that exactly half the league advances past the regular season, and exactly half of the remaining teams advance through each round. A playin would create unnecessary playoff spots... the end of the regular season is basically an extended playoffs for these teams anyways.

5) I don't think there's anything wrong with the current video review system. I remember the first couple of years where some of the reviews took over 10 minutes, that was excessive, but I think most of them are under 3 minutes now. Perhaps adding an actual rule that says "reviews cannot exceed 3 minutes" would be a good idea, but the system does not need to be changed.

6) I've never really understood why they do the anthems before games for club teams. Obviously it makes sense for a national team, but there are players of so many nationalities in the NHL that don't hear their anthem before a game.

7) Totally agree, let people watch the games they paid to watch!

8) If you want to do pregame ceremonies and all of that, just tell people that you're starting at 7:25 instead of 7:00. The first or second season of the Golden Knights was awful for this, games would start half an hour late because of their pregame skits.

I'll also throw in a couple of my own:

Eliminate the trapezoid, let goaltenders take a risk and play the puck. Dump and chase is less interesting anyways, incentivize teams (even further) to carry the puck in and make a play.

Get rid of retention slots. Teams can retain on as many players as they can as long as their total retained salary is less than the current maximum (1/8 of the cap)
Forum: General Fantasy TalkMar. 7 at 4:35 p.m.
Forum: NHLJan. 28 at 10:31 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #3: After Further Review...
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CantStopWontStop</b></div><div>I was waiting until the end of the wings game to type that they’ve tied the record for number of 10 goal scorers on a team for a season in the cap era.</div></div>

Unless I'm misinterpreting something, you're still AT LEAST one player short even when Veleno hits 10.

<a href="https://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20222023&amp;seasonTo=20222023&amp;gameType=2&amp;playerPlayedFor=franchise.26&amp;filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&amp;sort=goals&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">The Canes last year</a> had 12 players hit 10 goals, and that's just the first team that I looked at, I'm sure there are more in the last 19 years, and I don't remember anyone talking about how Carolina had the most 10 goal scorers in the cap era.
Forum: NHLJan. 20 at 7:07 a.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #3: After Further Review...
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CantStopWontStop</b></div><div>Just curious: anybody know?

Does the current established player contract require alcohol distribution from teams? As far as I’m aware, every single team has a free, self serve bar for players and provides during flights. This is knowledge passed on from somebody who was in the league during the 80s thru the 00s.

Could teams remove player/employee access to alcohol if they wanted?

Could teams bar players and other team individuals from consuming alcohol “during work hours” or “on premises”?

I’m guessing they cannot, or we would have heard about it occurring. Or maybe it does occur, but due to sponsorship type stuff, we never hear about it.

As an owner, my rule would be very clear and start on day one of the season: in a playoff spot? Let the booze flow. Outside looking in? None. Entirely too many players end up in alcohol related incidents and alcohol is by far the worst consumer product to fill a bunch of professional athletes apart from silly stuff like feeding them nails or bleach. Every other consumable “substance”, including -all- of the illegal ones, does less damage to a pro athletes body and mind, altho some aren’t far behind, whether that be from how body processes sugar, the after effects of consumption, the effects of consumption, and it’s addictive qualities.</div></div>

Exhibit 14 of the current CBA lays out some Standard Club Rules, and the first one is as follows:

"Alcohol consumption is absolutely prohibited on Club flights, in airports or in any
hotel in which the Club is staying, unless specifically authorized by the Head
Coach or General Manager. In all other cases, alcohol consumption must be
sensible. If a Player has been drinking and has a vehicle with him, the Club shall
reimburse him for his cab fare home without questions or retribution."

The only other mention of alcohol in the CBA is that a player is not permitted to endorse any alcoholic beverages, with the exception of malt-based beverages such as beer or ale.

In the player contract, there are a few mentions of general "conduct", that may be used to prevent a player from drinking on-premises:

"The Club may from time to time during the continuance of this SPC establish reasonable
rules governing the conduct and conditioning of the Player, and such reasonable rules shall form
part of this SPC and the Agreement as fully as if herein written" (player can be suspended by the team for breaking one of these rules).