Start Your Own League and Fix the Rules ESPN Hockey Polls

Want to start the NHL from scratch?  How would you organize it? - Start Your Own Hockey League

Let’s say they were actually playing this game - Fix the rules

Currently only three rules changes have over 50% approval, here are the top five:

69.9% Restrict size of goalie pads
63.4% Use tag-up offsides
57.1% Eliminate the instigator rule
49.5% Olympic size ice (100 x200)
45.8% Use automatic icing

The only one I didn’t vote for was the Olympic size ice, but I can’t say I’d have any major objection to it.  Eliminating the instigator’s counterpart, ban fighting, only has 7.5% of the vote.

Here’s an interesting part of the vote:

7.0% Reduce roster size
4.5% Reduce the size of the roster

Are they the same?  Is one supposed to be number dressed on-ice, the other the complete off-ice roster?  Who knows, but I find it odd they’re that off from each other and I wonder how many voted for just one.

Thanks to Eric at Off Wing for the links.

Posted by David M Singer on Dec 13, 2004 at 03:12 PM

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