Mackcanuck Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 As it stands now the visiting Center must put his stick down first in the faceoff, This gives the Home team Center an advantage The NHL has proposed at the GM meeting that the Defensive zone center would have to put his stick down first, giving the Offensive center the advantage Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie 15h15 hours ago ...the team on defence must put stick down first. So potential edge on faceoff goes to team closer to other team's net, not home/away. Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie 15h15 hours ago If approved by Competition Committee/BofG, next season instead of visiting team always having to be first to put down stick on faceoffs... Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie 15h15 hours ago There was another rule change recommendation coming out of today's NHL GMs meeting, proposed by CAR GM Ron Francis and endorsed by the GMs. Kevin Allen @ByKevinAllen 11m11 minutes ago Best way to think about proposed NHL faceoff rule change: center closest to own net puts stick down first. Visitor goes first at center ice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 i like this rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Why does anyone have to put their stick down at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benchsplinters Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 What a bunch of nonesense. It all irons out in the wash when a team plays 50% of its games on the road. Talk about reinventing the wheel and making more things complicated. Stupidity to say the least. The refs seldon adhere to the rule anyway. Same with goalie interference. What in hell is the crease markings for? Opposing player in the paint. Whistle is blown and a face off is called for outside the blue line. Touching the goalie, two minutes for interference. Goalie outside the crease cannot be touched. Simple. This is not rocket science is it? Just a week of leisure for GMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggs50 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 What a bunch of nonesense. It all irons out in the wash when a team plays 50% of its games on the road. Talk about reinventing the wheel and making more things complicated. Stupidity to say the least. Same with goalie interference. What in hell is the crease markings for? Opposing player in the paint. Whistle is blown and a face off is called for outside the blue line. Touching the goalie, two minutes for interference. This is not rocket science is it?This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatedkid666 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Nice way to add offence into the game without screwing everything up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benchsplinters Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Nice way to add offence into the game without screwing everything up Why should a team be punished for an opposing player shooting it out in the d zone. What about a penalty call. Puck is dropped in d zone. Why the double jeopardy there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This looks to me like a fix for something that isn't broken... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Why should a team be punished for an opposing player shooting it out in the d zone. What about a penalty call. Puck is dropped in d zone. Why the double jeopardy there. why would you punish a team who already had to fly into town just to play the game? why the double jeopardy now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Players would adapt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-SN- Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 What a bunch of nonesense. It all irons out in the wash when a team plays 50% of its games on the road. Talk about reinventing the wheel and making more things complicated. Stupidity to say the least. The refs seldon adhere to the rule anyway. Same with goalie interference. What in hell is the crease markings for? Opposing player in the paint. Whistle is blown and a face off is called for outside the blue line. Touching the goalie, two minutes for interference. Goalie outside the crease cannot be touched. Simple. This is not rocket science is it? Just a week of leisure for GMS. The intent of the rule is to increase offense, not address home/away fairness. It's a small change and I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken kaniff Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Doesn't matter. Canucks will still loose the majority of faceoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Doesn't matter. Canucks will still loose the majority of faceoffs except for horvat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAntar Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Ok clearly you guys aren't getting this. Right now (and for as long as I remember) visiting centres must commit their stick to the ice first. The home centre can come down on top for an edge. I think it's about a 5% edge league wide. The proposal is to give that edge to the attacking centre instead of the home centre. Probably could lead to a few more late goals in the o zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeBee51 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 meh... not going to make much difference for a bad faceoff team like the Canucks anyway. Henrik can still lose most of the o-zone draws and Horvat will do ok in the d-zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronalds.Kenins41 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 meh... not going to make much difference for a bad faceoff team like the Canucks anyway. Henrik can still lose most of the o-zone draws and Horvat will do ok in the d-zone. I don't know what happened to Hanks faceoff ability. He has never been league leading in that category but was respectable until this season when he has really fell off a cliff in his faceoff percentages. Ever since his injury last year he just hasn't been the same consistent faceoff guy he used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBdaQUIB Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 This looks to me like a fix for something that isn't broken...Rearranging the deck chairs. Looks like something has changed when it really hasn't. Refs don't enforce the existing rules which if they did would create much more offense than this silly change would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmm Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 What a bunch of nonesense. It all irons out in the wash when a team plays 50% of its games on the road. Talk about reinventing the wheel and making more things complicated. Stupidity to say the least. The refs seldon adhere to the rule anyway. Same with goalie interference. What in hell is the crease markings for? Opposing player in the paint. Whistle is blown and a face off is called for outside the blue line. Touching the goalie, two minutes for interference. Goalie outside the crease cannot be touched. Simple. This is not rocket science is it? Just a week of leisure for GMS. I was right with you till the end there. then you kind of back tracked on yourself. Why have a crease if goalies are allowed to roam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baer. Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Everybody complains about the refs taking too long on faceoffs. Now the GMs go out and throw this garbage into the game only making it slower and more complicated. NHL has to over think everything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Ok clearly you guys aren't getting this. Right now (and for as long as I remember) visiting centres must commit their stick to the ice first. The home centre can come down on top for an edge. I think it's about a 5% edge league wide. The proposal is to give that edge to the attacking centre instead of the home centre. Probably could lead to a few more late goals in the o zone. Or, maybe they could quit trying to nickel and dime their way into more offense by imposing new rules and start enforcing the existing ones... A good start would be to scrap this idea that a foul has to be twice as bad in the third period, or thrice as bad if a team is already short handed, before calling a penalty. A little less "game management" and a little more calling it like it is, would go a long way, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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