August 14th, 2025 – The Most Broken Rules in the NHL…

August 14th, 2025 – The Most Broken Rules in the NHL…

is Jets at noon with Cameron Vitus and Jim Toth on 680 CJ OB. Hello, welcome. Happy Thursday to all. Jim Toth, how are you doing this fine uh Thursday? Thursday game day. Well, sun’s out, guns out. M I um look, I don’t go too much onto the I I I’m on social media and all that, but I don’t like I don’t sit there and scroll for hours and stuff, but I did see one of those videos of somewhere in Iowa, I believe, two guys from California, surfer dudes, showed up at a city council meeting, um and they said, “Yes, we would like to address council. We heard that there’s a petition to ban guns in the state or in this county or something.” And he was like, “Well, that’s not on the docket.” said, “Well, we thought we’d bring it up.” And they said, “We think this is a vital, being from SoCal, we think this is a vital part of our freedom as Americans and all that.” And as they go on to the city council in Iowa, it’s about having their sons out, guns out, not about banning guns. What a bunch of idiots. And it’s I mean, they did it on purpose, but it is absolutely And then the one guy goes, “What are you gonna do without these?” And he flexes. And the city council is like, “Okay, you’re going to have to leave now. This is not on the agenda. It’s not part of your This is part of our freedoms. We work hard on our guns.” And anyway, has nothing to do with today’s show. It’s just the sun’s out, guns out, humidity’s out. Go to the bomber game. Have your have your guns out. Another sold out Princess game at Princess Auto Stadium. The Red Blacks. Yep. No, they’re going to be sold out all all year. You think so? I think so. Yeah, I think so. What if they’re four and seven? Because like the the No, I think I think they still I think they’re sold out all day. I think they’re going to be sold out all. It’s a big year. Gray Cup Jets at Noon brought to you by uh Wash Method Car Wash 690 St. An’s Road. VIP take on the text line to win a VIP car wash from our good friends at Wash Method. 2047806868. We’ll announce the winner later in the program as we’re coming at you live from the Boston Pizza Studio for gourmet pizza and pasta. Bring the team to Boston Pizza. So Jim, by the way, credit to our listener yesterday who anointed Wash Method the onen of Winnipeg for your car. Yeah, it is for your vehicle. And if you’re wondering what an onen is, O Nen, look them up. They’re uh Japanese community communal baths. You too bring your vehicle to wash. You get soaked up initially and sprayed down and then you go through the cleanliness portion and then you relax. And if you’re fortunate enough, you can onend to the right and go in to get the interior done. Yeah. Make sure you always onen to the right. Don’t ever onend to the left. Well, you’ll go back on to St. Ans. So, you want to don’t do that. You want to continue the onson. Yeah. You want to keep on if I may. T-shirts are coming on and on. They first called wash method on 690 St. An’s road. First, it was referred to as the Paris of Winnipe the Eiffel Tower. Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls of Manitoba. Yeah. Now it’s also the onen. The onen. So if there was an onen of North America, if there was an onen in Niagara Falls. Well, now you you’re just creating That’s exactly what it would be. You’re just creating money. It’s just a money maker. That’s all it is. Uh what was the question? We asked a question of the audience yesterday 2047806868 about rules. And we’ll get to this uh in just a second here, but I also want to let you know that the 2025 promotional uh game days have been announced by the Winnipeg Jets. And I’ll make sure to mention that uh before the day is done. And also, we’ll get into some of the rules that we would like to see the NHL reshape. We’d like to see them change. And I also found some that are a little suspect. Well, see, I didn’t del I did my homework. You did? And I got a couple, but I didn’t delve into these ones like you did. and and I’m intrigued by this. Yeah, there you’re going to want to stick around till after 12:30 where I give you some some some some dandies, as as uh my grandfather would say, some dandies. As Ed Whan used to say, some ring a ding-dong dandies. That’s right. Maybe there’ll be a couple malfunctions at the junction. There might be. You might You might You know what? Listening audience listener, you might like them or you might think that guy’s nuts. You want to go to a party, Mr. Whan? No. No, I don’t. Well, you’re not invited. That was J.R. Foley to the late great Ed Whan during Stampede Wrestling Days when I was a young man in southern Alberta going, “You respect Mr. Whan.” Stampede wrestling was huge, man. It was massive. Saturday afternoons, I came to Lethbridge once. My father took us. We left early. He was not impressed. He didn’t like it. He the live the non-TV version of Stampede Wrestling was not for children really. Although there was a ton of children there. Well, because they probably like the TV version of it. Well, I think it was tamed down a little bit. Like the Hart brothers would roll into the Lethbridge exhibition grounds and Wakamatsu was there and Bad News Allen and Rotten Ron Star and the language camera that was flying around that arena on a school night. Frank the Tank was like, “Boys, let’s go before you start smoking as nine and sixy olds.” Frank the T Frank tote said, “No thanks.” Yeah, no thanks. We’re out of here. But dad was always the guy who would come downstairs in Saturday afternoon goes, “Why don’t you guys go outside? Turn that TV off.” Oh, is that bad news, Alan? And then we’d sit down for two hours. Um, I keep saying it’s so stupid, but yet he’d watch with us. Well, but it’s so stupid. It’s fun. Isn’t that Isn’t that the the allure of wrestling? Yeah, it was a ring of ding-dong dandy. Um, so here’s some I don’t think these are these are dandies. I think these are actually up for debate and we can Well, some of them are. Some of them are a little crazy, but um so uh power play here here’s one that I I found. Power play always two minutes even if a goal is scored. How do you feel about that? I like that. I do too. Do you think it would incur same amount of penalties more or less? Less. This was actually on my list, Cam. Yeah, I it would be there would be far less penalties. Yeah, I don’t know. what the speed and stuff, but but listen, you would pay for the man like the the the importance of penalty I mean penalty killing is important but the importance of penalty killing like it would skyrocket. you would sign guys for a lot more money that were just role players that are now pKers. Those guys would be seriously important on a team. More important than they are now to go out there and kill penalties, man. Blocking shots and all that. It would be it would be pandemonium. It would be interesting. So, here’s the problem with it, though, because I look at the pros and cons. Yeah, the pros would be outstanding. Like, you could get a team like the the Oilers or somebody or the Tampa Bay Lightning and in two minutes score three goals. The flip side of that is you get a minor penalty four and a half minutes into the first period and all of a sudden it’s three nothing two minutes later. That’s right. And the game is essentially unless they took a penalty. It would also be embarrassing if you had six power plays and didn’t score and the other team got two and scored four goals in four four minutes total. But think of the comebacks. Uh yes. So I do like it. It’d be thrilling, but I also think it would ruin the game in the fashion of if you took two minors in the first period and there was five goals scored. The game’s over. Uh here’s another one that we hear all the time. Uh three-point standings, three for a win, two for an overtime shootout win, one for an overtime shootout loss. People always bring this up, but I’ve looked at this for several years and it makes almost no difference at the end of the day in terms of standings. Well, what it does make a difference of is and we’ve talked about this. No, I mean like at the at the end of the year at the end of the year once all 8 every team plays 82 games, the change in where a team sit in the standings is almost it’s almost nil. Like you’ll maybe have one team move up a spot, it’s almost exactly the same. Yeah. And I I agree with that. But the difference is is in February if a g if a team is five points back it is it like to gain five points in the National Hockey League standings in the new year is it takes two to two and a half months if you can do it and then you need other teams to lose. It’s it’s false parody right? But the difference is is if you’re in February there are fans that go our team’s only five points back. This is a divisional game. Let’s get tickets. Let’s go. In the three-point system they would be 12 or 14 points back. Yeah. Or 13 points. And then that’s a different story, right? Because then it’s pretty obvious you’re not coming back from this. You’re not going to gain 13 points in the standings in February. Yeah, it’s false parody. So that’s false parody. It looks better in the stat sheet. It looks like you have a chance. You get the yield. You just got to keep winning. There are teams that go on 10 11 game winning streaks, but you need the other two or three teams you’re chasing and go on 10 to 11 game losing streaks. So I don’t I don’t really care about this as much. I do I do like the three game three points for that, two points for an overtime win and none if you don’t. But now you get a point if you go to overtime. Yeah. So, um I was a big proponent of this and then I actually looked into it and I did the numbers and I went back over very I spent way too much time on this and it it it’s almost identical. There’s some teams that move up and down a little bit, but really it’s it’s almost the same. It it it only really matters when you have a team that is constantly taking games to overtime and winning then then it uh and losing. I mean it’s it’s that’s the Dallas Stars got in was it two or three years ago that they literally had they went to overtime. Their record was not good but they went to overtime 13 times. That’s 13 points. Yeah, exactly. That’s the big difference. Uh here’s here’s my hot take and I and I and I’m heading into a break on purpose on this one. Uh cancel offside reviews. I want them gone. I want the offside review gone. I think it evens out over the course of the season and it’s just another stupid review that we have to sit there and wait while they go over every camera angle and all this crap and then lots of times people don’t like the ruling that was done anyway. So, I just think get rid of them over the course of 82 games it evens out. Just be done with it. Yeah. I don’t know. I I know you don’t agree with that, but I I’m I’m almost for cancel. I mean, there’s nothing more heartbreaking if you get a a a a goal in a key moment, especially in the playoffs, and then it’s offside. Well, yeah. Just get just don’t review them. Just trust the linesman. But I’m the guy who like I’m the guy that if I shoot 120 on the golf course, I shoot 120. I’m not giving it a kick with my foot. If it’s a tiny fraction offside, who cares? I know that. I know, but big deal. If it’s the speed of the game, who wants to review it? Like, waste all that time. deflate. Like if it’s less than a millimeter, I mean, that’s the the play is the play. I I get it. But then at the end of the day, like I say, I can’t sleep at night if somebody foot wedges my golf ball, and I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if it was offside and it wasn’t called. It’s just things like that bother. Uh Ken Ken text says, “Offside review limited to 30 seconds top.” So, it’s not obvious in the time frame. It’s irrelevant on a millimeter. I can I kind of agree with you, but I’d get rid of them all together. Let’s keep this rolling. Hey, text us yours. 204-78-68-68.20478-6868. Still to come, we’ll get to those out there rule changes. Want to make sure we have some times. Uh, and I want to hear what you have to say too as well, but when we come back, the Jets have added some new promotional nights. We’ll tell you what those are when we come back. Dat CJ O. Call the Boston Pizza Jets at noon hotline. Open 2472047806800. Coming for lunch every weekday to Boston Pizza. 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Players are faster, bigger, but I kind of I kind of like where we’re at with this right now. I There’s not a lot of the stuff parts of the game I dislike right now. I want your rules, too, Jim, when we come back. Don’t go anywhere. Brought to you by Wash Method Car Wash 690 St. An’s Road. VIP. Take on the Tech Sign and win a VIP car wash from my good friends at WashMth 204786868. We’ll announce the winner later in the program which is coming at you live from the Boston Pizza Studio for Gourmet Pizza and pasta bring the team to Boston Pizza. Also download the Jets and podcast free now on Apple, Spotify. We’re also face to face on YouTube or wherever you find your favorite podcast with plenty of memorable Jets talk and episodes and special content exclusively found there. So you can take Jetset noon wherever you go whenever you want. Jim, we’re talking about uh changes to the NHL. What rule changes? What what else you have? I know that you had a two full two-minute power play regardless if you score. That was on your list. I did have it there just to get people’s ideas. I’m not sure I would like it cuz the game could get out of hand real quick. Yeah. Um so that was one of them. The other one was offside review, but a way of making it better. Now, I know people have said put a time limit on it. One texter said 30 seconds, another texter said 20. The problem I have with that is you got to get it right. So, the last thing I I want them I would instead of having a time limit of seconds on it, I would do a max of two minutes. I don’t know why you can’t do it in two minutes and make a decision on that. Yeah, you might need more staff to be honest with you. Like, you might need more than one person sitting there editing the angles and looking at it and then having somebody make the call. Um, but I don’t I I I don’t mind that. And then um the other one it was around the power plays where if you score on a delayed penalty that the penalty still happens. So if there’s a hooking call and the play goes on and instead of a save or a faceoff and the whistle’s blown, if you score, then the two-minute penalty still happens. Yeah, Frank text that thing. Good. I was going to mention it from Frank. Frank text or Frank sent that. Frank’s on it now. I wouldn’t want um the endless power play then in that that thing. So, I think the endless power play would get out of hand. I’ve mentioned this already in the first segment, but I think you could have a team score three power play goals in two minutes, then the game’s over. Right now, the argument would be that, well, what if the other team got three power plays over the course of the game? They could get right back in it. Um, and I wonder how coaching would change on the penalty kill and stuff, right? Um, the other idea I had, Cam, and this is wild, was what if on the penalty kill, if you get a goal, if you get a short-handed goal, the power play’s over. Yeah. I like What do you think of that? I like it. So, if if you have a turnover 28 seconds into your man advantage, it goes the other way and you get scored on. Your man advantage is over. Because I always find an interesting part of the game is when you do get scored on on the power play and you still have a minute left to kind of get that goal back. Yeah, I like that aspect of it. But the flip side of that would be I mean what pressure would be there to not turn the puck over or give up a shortanded goal and and you’d have teams going for it if they need I love shorthanded goals. I I think that you know you’re facing the momentum of the other team and you can absolutely devastate them by not only countering with a shorthanded goal but then their power plays over. Mh. And if the power penalty kills would be more aggressive to try and end this and take advantage of it. So I like that idea more so than the endless power play and all that. But I want to fix over uh now I also mentioned to you this morning. So I got five actually. But um goender interference. So we have enforcers like George Peros and in the past others yeah handing out the discipline. And a lot of people like that because well they’re the ones who you know they are the ones who enforced the game. They’re the ones who if somebody did something to one of your players they stepped up and stuff like this. What do you think of putting a goalie on goalender interference? Maybe that’s uh what Connor Haluck will do after his playing days are over. He would love to be in charge of that. So I my initial thought is everything would be goalender interference. Absolutely everything. Yeah. But then you sort of settle down and go well wait a minute. the coach still has to review it, but let a goalie go. Like, how many times over the years have we heard a goalie say, “I have no clue what interference is. I literally couldn’t turn or I couldn’t do this.” Or like the the goal in Dallas in the playoffs when he Connor Hellbuck quote unquote projected the puck into his own net. Yes. But yet the propelled, sorry, propelled propelled it into his own net, but yet the play that caused him to propel it couldn’t be. I just I I don’t know how that was a fun episode. That was a fun day after that happened. I don’t know how we do it. I don’t know if we need a goalie involved in it or how it goes about, but of all the things I desperately want fixed, it’s goalender interference. And not to get rid of it. Yeah. I want it cleaned up so there’s a bigger, better definition of it and it’s easier to judge and call. Okay. All right. And that goes back to your point yesterday of having screens as a stat. So what is a good screen? What is a bad screen? Well, goender interference helps with that, right? So that those are my thoughts. I still think screen should be tracked. We got some people that didn’t agree with me. That’s fine. But I still think so. Um well, you’re a screener. You’ve been screening you screen your calls. I you picked up once when I’ve called. It’s always like ah I’ve been screening you Jim Toad for years. Not this guy. Um, you want to get into some of these wild ones? The out I said I’ve called them the out there rule changes. Yeah. Okay. Now, this and and listen, I I honestly believe when some people put these out there, they actually thought they were good ideas. Some of them might be tongue and cheek. I hope this first one is tongue and cheek. Goals uh past the blue line count for two. Say that again. Goals scored past the blue line count for two. That is wild. So outside of the blue outside of the offensive zone, if you score Yeah. If so, if you score included on empty nets, uh cuz that’s where the predominant of them come, right? Yeah. Oh, I just blew your mind. Yeah, you did. You got to think these through, Cam. You can’t just sit down with your crayons and come up with stuff and throw it against the wall. Well, then you would. Except for on empty nets. I will tell you this. You never see Oh, if Yeah, except for empty nets. All of a sudden, there’s that c that asterisk. I’ll tell you this, if it wasn’t, you would never have goalies pulled ever. You would never pull. You never because you could be down by two instead of one. That’s right. Yeah. So, it would be excluded of empty net goals. Well, I guess you’d already be down by a goal, so who cares if you lose by two or three? It doesn’t matter. But Oh, yeah. But if you if you’re empty net goal, then you’re down by two. You’d be down by three. Yeah. So, who cares? But it’d be really over. Um I I don’t That’s That is wild. But I think like the idea of it is to like firing the puck from the faceoff dot on net for two and you just see if you’re down by two goals, you just have pucks being fired from all over the place. I mean, imagine the shame of a goalie. Not only do you get scored on embarrassing Yeah, it’s embarrassing enough now. And then it’s too there be lot there’s a two spot. There’d be a lot of those skates around the the net when they just cannot believe it and their heads go up and down. Uh but bad idea. Bad idea, I have to Ah, I I don’t mind it. Maybe tomorrow on free-for-all Friday, I’ll think about it. Uh, okay. Here’s one. Uh, teams play rotating series. So, they play every team in their home barn every other year, and they have a four-ame series against divisional opponents. So, they would play four in Winnipeg one year, and then they would play four in Dallas, for example, the other. So, they play a four game series only once a year against divisional opponents. They play a three-game series against conference opponents. Um, which will now this when they move to the 84 game schedule, this they could do every single time. And then they play two game series against the opposite conference. So Sydney Crosby and the Penguins would come to Winnipeg every second year for a twoame series. That’s a little out there, Jim. That is out. You play You play the Dallas Stars four games in a row. In a row. Yes. And then you could potentially meet him in the playoffs. That’s right. Wow. I don’t know. Like that’s a listener question actually. Would you would you go to four straight games against Dallas or two I guess? Yeah. No, no, no. It would be Well, the idea is four, but you could also have like a home like you play a twoame series, you play one in Dallas. Yeah. But they’re two game series each time. Let me ask you this. Would you like to do AHL where you get the backtoback games? Well, like instead of a Friday night against Pittsburgh and a Sunday afternoon against Utah, you have a Friday, Saturday against the Penguins. I would say this, there’s lots of times when you have a wild and crazy game against the Minnesota Wild like we’ve had every single year for the past exactly for the past five years or so and it’s like everybody’s got that next one circled, but it’s coming up two and a half months from now. Kind of takes the wind out of the sales right by then, you know, everyone’s kind of calmed down. if they played again two the next day or a day after listen everybody’s still fired up it would it would change that so I think in some respects it would be good but in other respects like if it was three game series against say the you know the Anaheim Ducks and they’re in town for three games or something like that that’s what I mean would you go to all three games against that would be totally that would be just a total flatline I think yeah I I do the one thing I don’t want to mess with is you’ve got to see every team at least once at home and that’s what I do like about the change the schedule in a couple of years ago cuz you should not go a year without Sydney Crosby coming to town ovetkin I agree with that McDavid now McDavid’s in the west and all this but if you think out east you got to see the Tampa Bay Lightning at least once you got to see the Florida Panthers at least once it would be devastating I think if Florida didn’t come to town this year here’s another one the NHL shot clock not like the clock that counts the shots like a shot clock like in the NBA No. When you have 24 seconds to shoot the puck? Absolutely not. You’re not even willing to consider it. No, because there’s going to come a time where you just throw it on net and you’re out of options. And I’m I’m against it, too. Yeah, I don’t like that at all. I don’t like it at all. Here’s the one I do like, and it’s from our listeners. Uh, a tech said, “I’d like to see all penalties reviewed in the dying minutes of a game. There have been some phantom high sticks or trips. They’ve decided games in a playoff series. I would like to see penalty calls reviewed.” I I’m I’m I’m I’m so against like adding any more reviews. I know it would become like the NBA last 3 minutes and I know it’s frustrating to everybody and like when it happens against your team particularly when it happens to the Jets it just it’s like so it’s so frustrating. But here’s the thing like if you can see it on the replay if the broadcasters can get it before the face off then there should be a buzzer. Well, then then you know what? Then we need to go to the point where we don’t even have we have the linesman on the ice to break up fights, but then we have no referees on the ice. Every every play just gets reviewed. If there’s if something happens, oh, let’s let’s go to review. Like then I just that’s if there’s six or seven minutes if there’s six or seven minors in three periods, the game’s going to get longer. But I don’t understand why if there’s a tripping call and then they often go to commercial break or if there’s a tripping call, they go to the box and then the broadcasters go here. the broadcasters literally within 4 seconds go here’s the replay. So why can’t the NHL just make sure that it’s like but but in in principle that’s what all this should be like they should always have it just right there but it never is. It always takes way too long. Well, they got to spend money, right? They got to get more people on it. But I don’t like if my thought have always been to the phantom high sticks and the phantom trips and the phantoms this if you could just review it quick and then have somebody buzz down even. Uh let’s let’s move on here because I want to make sure we have enough time to get to some texturers. Uh, we’ll do I have I have a list here, but we’ll we’ll get some we’ll get some uh we’ll just do this one last one here. Uh, review draft lottery. Uh, remove the draft lottery first round pick for the last place team and then give them two picks in the second round. So, if you finish last place, you do not get a pick in the first round. You don’t get a pick in the first round at all. No. And then you get two in the second. I would be more lenient that if you finish dead last in the league, you don’t get a pick in the top 10 or top five. Yeah. To that you cannot take a team like San Jose and not get round. I honestly think with the draft lottery the way it is now, I I think tanking is not even I don’t think anybody tanks anymore. No, I I think there’s teams that like realize that they’re in a rebuild and they’re, you know, they’re, you know, they have different circumstances than the teams going for the cup. I I agree with that. like look at some like the Sharks and stuff like that, but I I I don’t think anybody’s is purposely ting. I I don’t think that that goes on much anymore. The last time I saw it was that year in Buffalo where the last couple games of the season 60% of the roster was called out from the AHL. Yeah. All their veterans were just not played for How did that work out for them because of the draft lottery, right? Yeah. They lost it. So that’s why I don’t think there’s a lot of tangy, but I don’t Yeah, I I would say no. Let’s Okay, let’s take a break. Let’s come back on the other side. And hey, we want to hear from you, the listener, and the takes that you have. We got a whole list here. So, we’ll fire them off and we’ll get uh some I want to get through as many as possible. So, we just give our little thoughts and then we’ll move on to the next one. All right. Excellent. At noon with Cameron Press and Jim Toth on 680 CJ OB. Miss your chance to get your thoughts on the show today. Call the Boston Pizza Jets at noon hotline. Open 24/7 2047806800. Come in for lunch every weekday to Boston Pizza. You get a delicious main side and ice cold drink for only 15 bucks only at BP. The number one caller will be awarded a $50 gift card to Boston Pizza on Friday. I’m telling you, if you call 2047806800 with your with your best with the best uh rule that you want change or want added into the NHL, you are going to be the winner of that $50 gift card. I’m telling you right now, call right now. 2047806800. You might hear from me tomorrow with the best take. You win yourself a $50 gift card to Boston Pizza. Greg Mlin has weighed in. He said you you have to clear your own zone on a delayed penalty. Not allowed to ice it either. That’s interesting. Yeah, I like that. I like that. That is interesting. Yeah. Well done, Mlin. There you go. Every once in a while. Yeah, every once in a while is a good idea coming from surprises us. Uh Vern is our VIP. Even by listening that’s a surprise. I can’t believe I can’t believe he’s tuned in. Uh Vern texts the show uh and is our VIP uh text of the day uh from our good friends at Wash Method. Uh Vern says, “Jets at noon agree with eliminating offside review.” Thank you, Vern. Wow, that’s great. Thank you so much for agreeing with me. Uh but takes away from the rhythm of the game. Also would like to see full 10-minute threeon-ree OT uh shootout after 10 minutes if it’s still tied. Uh Vern, yeah, they it’s it’s I know it sounds silly, but it’s too much on the star players. It’s too the the bench shortens to you know you’d have if it’s 10 minutes then you’d have to roll all lines and I don’t know I I think five minutes is okay. I think five mostly I think it’s like 80 over 80% are actually dealt with. Well and also I’ve brought this up before and people don’t believe me but there’s flights to catch. There’s if you you know five even if it’s not over in 10 minutes you have to go to a shootout. It’s just Yeah. I like the five minute. Look, we don’t have to double it even. We could go to six minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s uh let’s keep going here. Patrick says if a goalie gets a penalty, he serves it and he has to go into the penalty box and you have to bring out the backup. What if the backout gets a penalty in the same sequence? Then it’s an open net. That would be that. The problem with that is injury. I I don’t like the idea that, you know, a backup goalie has to come in in the third period because his goalie took a tripping penalty and be in the net for two minutes cold and then leave. You might get injuries. Afternoon boys as texture says, “In my opinion, the NHL is in desperate need of a larger ice surface. That’s the only change that I would I would want, but they he said I but I know that they wouldn’t do it because it would take up u seats, those high price seats.” What about 3D men? Make it Europeanized. Now, they’ll never do this because it costs too much money to fix all the buildings in North America. It would take away the primo seats. But yes, exactly. If you made if you made European ice and had 3D and three forwards. Terry says, “Hi Cam and big gym.” If you have one skate, one glove, one stick, one elbow in the blue paint, automatic goalie interference. No, I It’s a little too harsh, I think. T and how do you judge that, right? We can’t even judge now properly. Slack says, “All replays should be done at live speed. If you can’t tell what happened on the play at live speed, then the call on the ice stands.” and slack. I like your That is a great point. The game is fast and we we get mad at refs and all that, but we always get to slow it down. Look at it frame by frame. The refs don’t have that luxury. Exactly. And we always talk about the guys getting faster and faster. Steve says, “If the game is tied after two periods, this one’s wild, Steve. This is a wild take. Uh but I like it. Uh I wouldn’t do it, but I like I like you you’re thinking.” Steve says, “If the game is tied after two periods, the third is played four on four. Open the ice up and hopefully let the stars shine. That is for a whole period. That’s That’s a wild one. Darlene says, “Veto the shootout and add five minute increments of three on three.” So five minutes if no one scores another five minutes. If no one scores another five minutes. I just I think we could do this like go to six minutes or go to seven. Yeah, it make more sense. But how about this? Your three shooters are your three shooters and you just go until the shootout’s won. So you might see the same shooter three times. Well, they go to European rules and then after you get through the three, then you can just have the same person go out over and over. Yeah. Over and over and over again. I don’t have a problem with that. Call it the Taves. Jim Toe will take you the Taves rule. Jim to take you all the way till two o’clock. Thank you very much, Jeffrey Foring the Show. Refall Friday tomorrow. Yep.

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