[ninty]

No touch icing.

They have in the the CHL and WHL. Once the puck passes the goal line, the play is blown dead. THat means there is no race to the puck and no one gets hurt in the corner. I'm reminded of Ryan smith who was racing for an iced puck and got tripped up and broke his leg a couple years ago.

No red line might be implemented. THis would be like intl hockey. Means tehre would be no two line pass anymore.

There will be tag up offsides which is good IMO.

There are going to be a TON of rule changes because everyone thinks hockey is boring. Especially most Americans.

The NHL wants to change a bunch of things to make it more exciting so more people will watch.

Another thing that will definetly happen is smaller goalie pads. Thats for sure.

I personally don't find anything wrong with the product on ice. I could watch pretty much any game between any two teams, but thats because i'm a hardcore hockey fan.