If you had to design your calendar with the goal of struggling with sports marketing, you couldn't do much worse than the NHL.
The league, which reworked its playoff format to highlight rivalry, castrated them in the regular season.
The league, where most of the best players praise high-level international competition, has successfully punted it from the calendar this season until this year and was able to do so again in the future.
What is GameChangers?
You've heard the judge explain the phone, but you've heard this have been told to yourself, to others, or both.
“That's a very stupid rule.”
You've seen the game and you've said this to yourself, others, or both:
“Why don't they change that?”
We all follow sports. They also know when rules need to be changed and when league policies require an overhaul. So let's do that.
Today we're opening a five-day series with a post that argues about which rules our writers need to change, what those changes should be, and why. In addition to working on the NFL, NHL, NBA, WNBA and MLB, he also dabbles in college sports, golf and soccer. There are no stones turned over – and the stupid rules will not remain the same.
Some of our suggestions are minor. Some of them are major. Some of them are completely radical.
Welcome to GameChangers with your post.
– In our NFL series, we tackled the stupidest rules in football, fixed tanking issues, and addressed the hypocrisy of QB led by Patrick Mahomes.
The league, which has been having problems with marketing young stars for decades, has successfully transformed amateur drafts into a place where everyone talks about free agents.
