There's nothing more disappointing than watching 65 minutes of rivet hockey, like 65 minutes of rivet hockey, a round-trip play, bruises, and fast-paced tempo, before each player tries to score to determine a winner.
It feels out of place. I feel that's insufficient. It feels like a cheating on a game that has just been played.
The NHL introduced five minutes of sudden, sudden overtime in the 1983-84 regular season, but they believed too many games would still end up in bonding. Despite switching to 4-4 overtime between 1999 and 2000 and beginning to award points to teams that lost in OT, the league still was unhappy with the number of games that ended in bonding.
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.
After implementing shootouts from 2005-2006 as part of the package for the 2004-05 lockout rules change, the NHL ultimately felt that many games were finished with shootouts .
