But would this mean the skate couldn't touch the blue line before the puck does? I dunno, seems like it'll just cause the same problem like 6 inches earlier.It is the league making a change to the bye week structure for next season. Half the league will be on a bye one week, the other half the next week.
They apparently talked about the offside rule and reviews as well, but they aren't making any changes. They focused on the skate in the air issue but decided it wasn't a big enough of a problem for them to change the rule. The league numbers were 100 offside challenges, 29 involving skate in the air, 9 overturned.
Personally, I think the change to be made with offside is to make the blue line part of the offensive zone. So basically the puck just needs to be touching blue for a play to be considered onside. It doesn't have to be all the way across.
I agree. This is basically Fantasy Hockey in real life, they could make this a huge thing.This is also dumb. Apparently the league has no plans to release the expansion protection lists to the public.
Feels like the expansion draft is something the league could market as an offseason event.
Stupid Vegas kniggetsI assume the players will know if they're on it though (Twitter blocked at work so not sure if it says it already), so there will be some leaky ass faucets the closer we get to knighting the newest Golden Knights.
I would be cool with this, too. I suggested the change for 2 reasons: 1) I think hockey is at its best when stoppages are minimized and 2) I think the intent of the offsides rule is to prevent the offense from getting behind the defense and this does that while better achieving objective 1.I think offsides is fine. Ditch the review and live with it.
RawCharge, the SB blog, noted that Vermin's demotion opens a spot for someone to return. Cedic Pauqette makes most sense, since he was only supposed to miss a couple of games. Stamkos skated with the team, but Tyler Johnson is still only skating on his own. Seems Stamkos may be back first.Cooper said Stamkos is now in "day to day" category. Not playing Thursday. But after that ...