Cooperalls followed by the glowing puck. Any others? Agree/disagree. Cooperalls LOL.
2007-05-18 16:03:40 · 29 answers · asked by Bob Loblaw 7 in Sports ➔ Hockey
How about having a day off right in the middle of the conference finals?
Not really an NHL idea, but trading Luongo was kind of a mistake.
How about anybody who said that there should only be 2 OTs in the playoffs?
I still wish the Flyers and the Leafs didn't change their goal horns.
The skate in the crease rule was weird.
Giving a team to Honolulu. Oh wait that was my idea and I won the Stanley Cup with the Honolulu Jaykays on NHL 2004.
Whoever hired the Sabres' power play coach should be shot. (Sabres fans, these comments are all COMPLETELY in jest)
The 2004-05 debacle was full of brilliant ideas, I'm sure. Whoever floated that rumor that we might have a 10 game season should also be shot. And then punched in the face.
Naming an NHL team after a Disney movie was...wow...
Most of these criticisms of mine were terribly unfair, but this was kinda theraputic.
2007-05-18 16:14:48 · answer #1 · answered by JK Nation 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
My nominees.
Give a point after regulation, followed by 4 on 4 for 5 minutes, followed by 1 on 1. Sure, you have an exciting skills competition for a couple minutes, but teams take you through 60 minutes of boredom to get there. Talk about trying to fine-tune the game and folly on top of folly!
The schedule. Copying a NFL schedule, who what? Plays once a week and a 16 game season? So, lets play everyone in our division which ends up being 8 times a year, and maybe other teams once every 3 years. Makes no sense. If a undesirable, boring, talent less team comes once a year, you can still sell it to fans before they realize it. Play that team 8 times, and people aren’t going to care by game 2.
The glowing puck was a bad idea. But I don’t think it is the worst based on several points. First it came and went pretty quick, verses other bad ideas that are lingering with us for twice as long. Then it is a technology idea, and I think we should be trying more of those. Like about the same time and by the same station that brought you the glowing puck, they brought you the highlighted first down line in football. Why can’t they do that for video goal review to see if the goal crossed the line?? They give us a bad angle via the overhead net cam, and can’t tell us for sure if the puck crossed the line. Even if we know the puck crosses the line, it isn’t goal unless we see it. Given that you are dealing with a 5 foot line, instead of across a full field I would think it would be easier. Finally, the people that brought us the glowing pack, gave us the score posted in the corner of the screen for the full game. Everybody adopted that right away. Now you look up at a screen, say a muted TV in a bar, and you know the score. Before they would announce the score about every second commercial break and at the end of a period. If you tuned in the middle of a game it took forever to figure out who was winning. They also put the time remaining in and penalty times. So given they tried so many things and most of them were good, I can forgive and forget that one of the ideas didn’t work.
2007-05-18 19:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by JuanB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question by the way, especially of the worst run league of the major pro leagues.
- Glowing puck
- Red Wings in the Western Conference
- Overloaded schedule. The original 6 don't all even play each other anymore
- Latest round of expansion. There are too many teams. The league really needs to contract.
Those are all bad moves, but by far, the #1 dumbest move of all time is:
- The TV deal with Versus. I live in Canada, so I can watch every game. It pissed me off when I was traveling in the US, and couldn't watch the Wings game, becasue no one has versus. I get why ESPN won't pony up $$ for hockey in the US. But there has to be a better plan than versus.
2007-05-19 02:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by Wolverine 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's still not that hot of an idea to me: how often coaches are fired... Wow, talk about a lack of job security. No other sports league has coaches let go so frequently. It just seems kind of unprofessional to me... Not that some of the coaches who have been fired didn't deserve it!
I'm not saying Winnipeg doesn't deserve a team, but what's wrong with Florida having teams? I know ice hockey in the "Sunshine State" sounds dumb, but if there are fans attending games down there, why deny them their hockey?
Glowing puck, oh wow.
Another bad idea: having the All-Star Game be the SAME every year. It's great for the players to participate in the same skills competition events that all the previous greats did, but come on, do something new on top of that!
The "distinct kicking motion" thing about skates being in the crease drove me crazy this year. I was about to start a campaign and march up to the Toronto War Room. (Not really, but you know.)
Yeah, Philly trading Peter Forsberg wasn't a good one, but maybe it really was his swan song and he wanted one last go at the playoffs and winning the Cup...
I heard a rumor that the NHL is going to require every team to base their website off the same template. I liked how every team's website was unique!
2007-05-18 17:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by Erica 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
haha yea the glowing puck was retarded
jk nation: i couldnt agree more about the idiot(kara yorio) who mentioned only 2 OT's in playoffs
installing the shootouts was retarded
the automatic penalty when a team in their defensive zone throws the puck out of bounds, they need to change it so that the ref makes the call on being intentional or not
basically any idea bettman has come up with has and will be a stupid one!!!
their scheduling of games, they pick the worst days to play games, and times, for godsakes they are competeing against the nfl and nba, for air time and they wonder why we get so low ratings.
the instigator rule they just implemented this season.
2007-05-18 18:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"I still wish the Flyers and the Leafs didn't change their goal horns."
-- amen
everything I would of said has already been said...
but I'll add these...
also wished the older teams would of brought their organs with them to their new arenas...
the new netting behind the goalies (I know its there for saftey reasons since that girl died during a BlueJackets game a few years back)... but it was fun knowing that there was an opportunity to catch a game used puck before...
The NHL's traditional conferences and divisions were renamed to reflect geography (like the NBA) rather than the league's history (i.e., the Wales and Campbell Conferences, and the Adams, Patrick, Norris, and Smythe Divisions). Bettman killed the tradition the NHL had with those Historical names...
The playoff format was altered so that teams were now bracketed and seeded by conference (also like the NBA), as opposed to the previous bracketing and seeding by division. At that time, I hated the NBA playoff format..! The old system had geographical rivalries... something the NHL is trying desperately to re-establish now..!
2007-05-18 19:33:43 · answer #6 · answered by Virus Type V 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cooperalls? What were those?
I would have to say the glowing puck, with it's red streak on slap shots, was the worst idea.
Also, getting rid of the original conference names and making all the names regional (atlantic, pacific, central) was also a bad idea. I liked the other names (Campbell, Prince of Wales, Adams, Norris, Patrick, and Smythe).
Hmm.... I wonder who was around when both of those happened....
2007-05-19 04:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by trombass08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glowing Puck - very bad.
Cooperalls though - I kinda liked mine with the long pants for practices and shinny couldn't wear them in real games though
Moving Toronto and Detroit to the West Division.
Does anyone else think that since the puck is black that no part of any uniform should be black? That's always bothered me.
2007-05-18 16:29:35 · answer #8 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The glowing puck was probably the worst, but:
How about these lame hooking and tripping calls?
Calling off the 04 - 05 season?
2007-05-19 02:25:23 · answer #9 · answered by MajorTom © 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how bout letting $ Bill Wirtz keep charge of the Blackhawks??
I love the new shootout rule, but it should have been best-of-5 like EVERY OTHER HOCKEY LEAGUE ON THE PLANET
Two-line pass rule was stupid, I'm glad they got rid of it
The trapezoid rule's kinda dumb too...make the trapezoid bigger and make it so the goalie can't cover it up outside the trapezoid instead of getting a penalty just by touching the thing
personally, I thought having the glow-puck on FOX was kinda a cool idea, but I bet having to go into the stands to retrieve the thing got to be a real pain in the a*s after awhile
dunno if there's a rule stating the eye visor is the only face protection allowed, but if it is, that rule needs to go to hell too
2007-05-18 17:50:41 · answer #10 · answered by scarletcub11 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋