OHL Looking at Rule Changes for 2005-06 Season

Comments?

Personally, I love the tag-up offside, but I hate the shootout. I don't see the attraction....... they play 65 minutes of hockey and then change the game entirely for the win.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/Junior/2005/02/18/934963.html

BRAMPTON -- While the NHL is trying to find a way to get its game back on the ice, the OHL is looking at ways to make its product more attractive for fans.

The league's competition committee is studying various rule changes that may be implemented next season.

Among them are the rule experiments being conducted in the American Hockey League on behalf of the NHL: a shootout to decide tied games during the regular season, reinstating the "tagup" offside and widening the centre red-line and blue-lines.

If the OHL adopts the shootout, it might come after playing the five-minute overtime currently in place.

i have mixed thoughts about the shootout.

the idea itself is kinda cheap, but when you actually watch it, it's sure fun to watch.

So much is riding on the shootout it makes me ill. It certainly shouldn't be adopted for the post season.

I dont think the O needs Shoot-Outs like the NHL does.

i think any changes of that magnitude would have to be implement throughout the CHL.

No hockey league needs a shootout, it's the most ridiculous way to decide a hockey game.

NO to shootouts!!!!!!!!!! :shakehead :shakehead :shakehead

shootouts are terrible.

shootouts are terrible.

Yep! The overtime for me is enough of a hair raising experience, lol. That alone almost gives me a heart attack............. :help: