As a UK hockey fan who’s been here since 2015, this has to be one of the coolest and most fascinating videos you’ve made!! So so much appreciation for the amazing work that you do Shannon, you’re a true gem :)
Unfortunately the head contact rules haven't gone far enough to protect players IMO. Protocols are nice, but until the league acknowledges CTE and makes all head contact illegal, players will continue to suffer head injuries and long term effects.
Huge slew of changes in 2005-06, including 4v4 OT, puck over glass, elimination of two-line pass, etc. I'd say that changed the game a lot more than who wears white when.
Puck over glass shouldn't be an automatic penalty, only if obviously intentional should it be penalized. Just make it a faceoff in the opposing team's zone.
You really want officials to determine whether or not a puck was put over the glass intentionally? Do you watch NHL hockey? Have you seen these officials? No way, not gonna happen. Just like high sticking, doesn’t matter if you didn’t mean to or not. That’s the rule and players need to not put the puck over the glass.
Elbowing penalties were called a lot more frequently before face shields/helmets when there was contact to the head from the glove on up. Some of those are now called as roughing, but you really don't see many elbowing calls anymore.
One of the greatest videos you've made Shannon. Your ability to provide rich content and present it with humour is priceless! Thank you for all you hard work. P.S. I would prefer NHL going back to one referee, having two didn't really help did it?
I personally think they NHL should give the linesmen the authority to call any penalties or rule infractions they see; I think there would be less issues with the officiating if instead of there being 1 referee and two linesmen(the old system) and the current more crowded 2 referees and 2 linesmen, they NHL simply had 3 officials on the ice, 3 officials who all had the same authority to call a penalty. As how many times have we seen a Linesmen see a penalty; but they are powerless to actually call the penalty they saw, then have to go slow or stop the game to consult and talk to the referee; the games would be faster as there would be no need for a linesmen to go " number 12 on the Leafs was holding number 3 on the Jets behind you back" If the linesmen himself could actually make the call and give out penalties too. To me I think it would be better if the NHL scrapped the whole Referee and Linesmen titles and simply called all three Officials and gave all three the same power and authority on ice
On the topic of helmets, I very much dislike the new rules about having to get off the ice as soon as you lose your helmet, assuming you can't get it back on right away. I feel like I've seen more players moving through dangerous situations without helmets since this rule change than we ever did before.
Thanks for a wonderful presentation! Beginning with the 1970-1971 season, the NHL ruled that the home team would wear white, and the away team would wear colors, ending a very old custom in the league. Then, beginning with the 2003-2004 season, the NHL reversed itself, and went back to having the away team wearing white again. It is surprising that the shoot-out is not on the list.
They need to go to three point games. The fact some games award 3 points, some 2 is stupid. 3 points for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win, and 1 for an OT loss
I'm honestly surprised this rule wasn't mentioned: Before the 1949-50 NHL season, the NHL passed a rule stating that no goaltender can be captain of team. This is sometimes called "The Bill Durnan Rule", named after the Montreal Canadiens goaltender, who was Captain of the team and would have disputes with the referees, which the other 5 teams stated that it gave the Canadiens unwanted breaks of the game.
In the interest of full disclosure I noticed Black Hawks prospect goalie Drew Commesso wore the 'A' this year at Boston University. I know it's not the NHL but still something.
Interesting fact on the red line: if you notice the red line is not solid. This is because on a black and white TV a blue and redline look exactly the same. So they broke up the redline to distinguish it from the blue line on a black and white TV. We still do it to this day.
@@pauljmorton they didn’t have all the cameras we do now. It was usually just 1. If the play was in the middle of the ice, then you may only see 2 lines. So it helps to know which one is red. Also remember TVs black then were really small so being able to easily distinguish the lines helped identify where on the ice the play was.
Great video Shannon but what about the introduction of the trapezoid and going to hybrid icing? Love the icing rule as I feel it has helped cut down on a lot of injuries but I still don't care for the trapezoid, I like watching the goalies be more involved in the game.
I played and followed hockey a ton in the late 90’s and early 2000s but then I had gotten away from it for a while. I started watching it again after the 2 line pass was removed from the game and I was very confused back then.
I think some more subtle changes that you missed were the mandatory visor as well as the cant take off own helmet rules. Those two rules have done more to decrease knockdown fights than anything else. Most fights now are barely wrestling as a result.
Helmets did lead to more high sticks, but it might be due as much to the weight of the sticks. There is still no reason, in my opinion, for a stick to be above your shoulder, but you always see guys waving at pucks or going into the boards with their sticks above their heads.
The changes in goaltending styles was quite a transition, from the standard 'stand-up' style, stacking the pads, kick saves etc., as well as the equipment. Ken Dryden had his pads measured a few times, as well as stick size. As a goaltender in the mid-late '70's, watching goaltenders on their knees 99% of the time today makes me think if we played that way back then we'd get some strange looks. lol
True. Also most goalies are not as large as they are today Some of these 6' 4"+ goalies still cover so much room up top.....and back in the 70s those pads soaked up water , getting so heavy by the 3rd period
@@damonwebb813 So true, the equipment sucked, the first pads I wore were stuffed with horse hair! lol There were many battle scars at the end of a game, many bruises on shoulders and arms! Not to mention face, neck & head protection.
@@stillkickinbandgeorgianbay900 he was famous for his 'butterfly', perhaps he was the innovator for that style in years to come. "Tony O' was second as my favorite all time goaltender to Ken Dryden.👍
Since uniform colors were mentioned multiple times - the NHL teams switched from wearing dark jerseys at home to wearing whites at home for the start of the 1970-71 season (or so I've read in multiple sources). So if home teams were wearing whites in 1951-52 that got changed somewhere well before 1970, got changed again for '70-'71 and again for 2003-04.
I seem to remember a year during the mid nineties where they had home teams wear their dark uniforms at home for part of the season. Maybe my memory is shot.
Roger Nielson would have tried 2 goalies for sure. I would support ties if they went to the Football style (soccer) where you get 1 point for a tie and 3 points for a win. That would really push teams to win and not just play for a tie.
I remember Roger Neilson telling his goalie to leave his stick just in front of the goal line when he pulled the goalie for an extra attacker at the end of a game. If anyone could find a loophole in the rules, it'd be Roger!
Great video as always Shannon - I would say one that was big and added in 2020 was the penalty assessed to a failed challenge in 2020. That really means you have to be careful in challenges and it has helped flow of play a lot. Prior to that it felt like a lot of coaches threw hail Mary’s more on plays that were clearly called correctly. I actually like the change - it allows for better game flow / less delays
I was told that after the second referee was introduced, Pat Quinn quoted "Great. Now they can be twice as bad". Somewhere during the late 1950s or early 1960s, they switched back to white for road teams and dark for home teams, because in 1967, Montreal wore red in the Montreal Forum and Toronto wore blue in Maple Leaf Gardens during the Cup Finals (they both wore white as the away team). Also, during the 1972 Summit Series, Canada wore red in the 4 games in Canada while the Soviets wore white, then they switched colours when the series shifted to Moscow for the other 4 games. The NHL went back to white for home and dark for away around 1975, which became the norm until 2003-04. In 2005-06, I believe both the shootout and the trapezoid behind the nets were introduced. I'm guessing someone had enough with ties and wanted all games decided with a win and a loss (may as well get rid of the points system if that is the case). As for the trapezoid, the league wanted more offensive zone time because Team A dumps the puck in, the goalie of Team B flicks it back out, no zone pressure from Team A. On top of helmets being mandatory, visors were made mandatory in the early to mid 2010s (everyone remembers the Leo Komarov penalty because he had his visor positioned wrong). And now helmets during warm-ups were recently made mandatory. Pretty soon, we'll be seeing full face shields become the norm (though helmets during warm-up being mandatory has been discussed since Taylor Hall tripped over a puck and his face was stepped on by a teammate's skate during a warm-up about a decade ago, so it was only a matter of time before the mandate would occur).
It's interesting that watching the Bruins two Stanley Cup wins in the early 70's you can see when the rule changed on uniforms. They won the Stanley Cup at home in 1970 and were wearing the dark uniforms. They won it in 1972 on the road (MSG) and were again wearing the dark uniforms. So that's when the rule changed.
I remember watching old VHS tapes from the NHL and people would throw ties on the ice if a team went on a streak of tying multiple games in a row. That’s pretty funny, not gonna lie.
the thing with the 3 minute penalties/scoring doesn't end the penalty situation... in lacrosse there are releasable and non-releasable penalties depending on the penalty and the severity of the penalty itself. I think that having 2 minute penalties being releasable and then double minor penalties (and/or majors) being non-releasable in hockey would be interesting to see
Interesting video. I can’t imagine every power play going the full 2 minutes. I agree with you about the dark uniforms as home. I liked going to games and having the visitors wear dark sweaters. Really makes it feel like they’re out of place in another team’s arena. As a goalie, 2 big changes I’m not a fan of are the trapezoid and when they shaved down the goal crease
I’m surprised you missed this one. I can’t remember the exact year but the 80s islanders Al Arbor was the head coach and he would pull his goal tender because they used to get a few minutes to warm up the the replacement goaltender. He would abuse the rule so he could just get a free time out . It would work something like this. Pull the goalie warm them up for a couple minutes while he give the guys a rest and talk over stuff and then the next whistle you would swap them back for the starting goaltender.
I don't like the fact that some games are worth 2 points and some 3 points. If you lose in 60 minutes you get zero points, but if you lose between 60 and 65 minutes you then deserve a point? That's ridiculous. I preferred every game being worth 2 points no matter the results. And if it was tied after 65 minutes, each team had 1 point and that was that. I also wish they kept the shooutouts for international tournaments and all star skills competitions only.
Just wanna say shannon that I appreciate these videos and everything you do. These in depth topic videos are amazing and your input is great to hear. you're a big inspiration to me and I hope you continue to give us content for as long as you can(or want to but I'm sure you want to do it for a long time)
Same I still prefer Home team wearing white and Road team wearing dark jerseys. This year when Buffalo and Pittsburgh played in Buffalo they both wore their Reverse Retro jerseys so it made me nostalgic watching it. Though I think they should change it again so that both teams could wear whatever they wanted for games. Picture quality is really good now and nobody is watching on a black and white TV so it shouldn't matter. The only time they would have to enforce players to wear different colors is if they have the same color scheme. Toronto/Tampa or Pittsburgh/Boston.
It really didn't matter to me, but I can understand the change. Not only from a marketing point of view but as a team and fan point of view. If you are playing in your home arena shouldn't you be wearing your teams primary colors? And the reason dark jerseys sell better is because they are the primary color scheme of the team. So it did look and feel a little odd going to a game say in Boston against Pittsburgh and 90 percent of the crowd were wearing dark jerseys that are pretty close to the visitors' color. That's how I see the change anyways. You have to admit it's kinda fun to see who, or how many are fans of a visiting team.
Hold on. They only introduced the idea of white home uniforms in the 70s and I, for one, hated the idea. I wanted MY team to have the coolest uniform on the ice.
My recollection of reading about the one goaltender days was that there wasn't an emergency goalie like these days. Rather, the team would have to dress a skater to put in net.
some info on the light/dark uniforms. Home teams wore dark until the 1970-71 season, not light at home. Think of Orr's famous flying goal. May 10 1970, at home in Boston is a good example. I recall the sweater change at the time, and hated it. The league went to whites at home from 1971/1972 to 2002/2003 season, when they came to their senses and went back to darks at home...
I definitely remember seeing a documentary about the history of hockey where they said that the guys who laid down the rules for the first known actual hockey game with rules, loosely based the rules on rugby.
Love your channel Shannon. May I point out that you missed a big one, (although it is off-ice), and that is the introduction of the draft lottery. Cheers!
one you did not mention was the Goalie Trapezoid...i really do not like that one. If a Goalie is good at playing the puck - more power to him! I think roving goalies provide great entertainment...
One of the better changes was limiting the amount of commercial breaks and speeding up the face off drop. Hockey games used to be 3 hours +, now they are 2.5 hours and it’s a much better product. Unfortunately, play review has slowed that down a bit. But it’s much better than football and basketball which likes to drag out the last couple of minutes of the game into 15-20 minutes full of timeouts and commercial breaks. Baseball is on another level or long, where a team can switch pitchers as much as they want causing 5 minute breaks with each change.
Going back to the no passing forward rule. Were there always blue lines in hockey? I could see no passing forward if there were no offsides in hockey. Just wondering.
One rule most people might not be aware of is that goalies used to serve their own penalties, leaving someone else on the team to protect the net. In 1949-50, a rule was made so that a teammate would serve the goalie's penalty instead.
I would like to see that rule brought back. If the goalie commits the penalty, he should have to serve it. Put in the backup during the penalty kill. Additionally, you'd have to put someone else in the box for when the penalty expires, since you can't have 2 goalies on the ice.
@@EvanEscher What would be the logistics of getting your goalie back out of the box without a whistle? Be forced to pull your goalie and skate the other out from the box? Seems like a pretty absurd change to me and would result in a near guaranteed goal if attempted.
@@chrismdb5686 you'd have to wait until the next whistle after the 2 minutes are up. The skater "serving" the penalty would exit the box when 2 minutes up are though.
@@EvanEscher So essentially they get a 2+whatever power play depending on how long you go with no whistle. Sounds like a really bad idea to me unless you want to let goalies stick a shiv in their equipment.
@@chrismdb5686 I don't think you get what I'm saying. It would still be a 2 minute PP (5-on-4), 2 men go to the box (goalie & skater serving penalty). When PP is over, skater exits the box, returning to full strength, and goalie leaves box at first whistle after PP is over.
Surprised you didn't mention the trapezoid. As a goalie myself, I've never met a goalie who ever liked that one, heh. Would love a sequel to this video btw. So many more interesting rule changes to dig into. I personally enjoy the ones related to Roger Neilson :P
When I got my coaching certifications… at the seminar Dave Karpa (former NHL defenseman in the 90s-00s) was a guest speaker, and he called the post 2005 lockout modern NHL a “glorified adult league.”
You missed one. Remember when Sean Avery screened Marty Brodeur? Imagine the sport if they didn't change the rules (very next day) to prevent that from ever happening again 😂
Just looking at that list, you didn't mention the elimination of the 2 line pass rule. A rule I would like to see implemented is the power play where if you score shorthanded, the penalty is also ended.
3 points for a regulation win, 2 for OT and a point for the loser, 1 each for shootout. Can't keep giving teams points for "winning" a shootout when they didn't win the game.
Great video. I love the historical aspects of the game. Now lets either get rid of the "Loser Point" in hockey, or make every game a 3 point game: 3 points for a regulation win. 2 for OT win, and 1 for making it to OT (The Loser Point). Awarding 2 points in regulation games and 3 points in OT games is screwed up. It dilutes the standings.
The no forward pass rule is a legacy of field hockey, which also eventually eliminated that rule (the evolution of field hockey rules is similarely fascinating).
One thing I'll never understand is why people don't want to see their home colors on home ice, my basketball loving friends love the white jerseys at home and I just don't get it. Why wouldn't you want to see your teams colors at home???
I believe it originated in baseball, which was the first big professional team sport in North America. In baseball the home team wore white and the road team wore dark, which through most of baseball history was gray. So the sports following baseball copied its example, even though they didn't have the dingy gray that baseball had. Football, though, the home team, except for the Dallas Cowboys, always usually wore the dark jerseys at home.
The elimination of ties has consigned to the dust bin of history some sportswriter's great (to my mind) line, "underwhelmed 38, overwhelmed, 30, whelmed 12." When did icing come in? I remember hearing, years ago, that it was in response to the great Canadiens teams establishing a lead and then tossing the puck down the rink at the least difficulty. And, if I remember correctly, no change of on ice personnel is a relatively recent tweak to the icing rule. I miss the home whites saying, "Rangers," while the road blues said, "New York." Great video.
For context with the helmet rule - Bill Masterton died due to his head hitting the ice in 1968. It would be 11-12 years after that until the league finally made helmets mandatory.
I'd love to see OT reverted back to 4-on-4, and then 2nd OT being 3-on-3. And then if it's STILL not decided, go for shootout cause we gotta go home at some point, but I feel like that would bring down the number of shootouts significantly, as well as make them more intense again. The fun of a shootout is when it's rare, so there's a lot of intensity. Right now, just feels like it's all too common.
I liked 4-on-4 better than 3-on-3, which just looks lame tbh. I would extend it to 8 minutes, and get rid of the shootout. If no one scores in OT, call it a tie.
TV probably made it 3 on 3 as they wanted a quicker result. I personally hate the shootout rule but it's better than the old system where teams were say 31-31-11-4 in the standings.
I remember when i think it was Andie Moog had that super huge glove ....and the outrage, now everybody has a huge glove, with a cheater pad covering the hole at the wrist Would be fun to see Shannon do a similar video like this BUT on goalie equipment development, also one on stick technology too
As a UK hockey fan who’s been here since 2015, this has to be one of the coolest and most fascinating videos you’ve made!! So so much appreciation for the amazing work that you do Shannon, you’re a true gem :)
He’s such a great guy - so glad his channel is growing - 100% deserved. Always learn something watching Shannon
Guys like Wade Belak and Derek Boogard died because of head damage/concussion. I remember that rule change and it's very much needed.
Unfortunately the head contact rules haven't gone far enough to protect players IMO. Protocols are nice, but until the league acknowledges CTE and makes all head contact illegal, players will continue to suffer head injuries and long term effects.
@Paul L1519 only reason they avoid acknowledge CTE injuries, is because of lawsuits
I'm imagining a time-traveling Don Cherry being outraged throughout the decades.
Dude was born in '34...he's been there for a lot of it without time travel!
@@JDrevolver66 don cherry has never left the 50's and 60's in his hockey thinking.
Huge slew of changes in 2005-06, including 4v4 OT, puck over glass, elimination of two-line pass, etc. I'd say that changed the game a lot more than who wears white when.
Gosh, and I even forgot to mention the salary cap!
That season also introduced the shootout to the league.
@@bdonaghu the shootout has run its course
Puck over glass shouldn't be an automatic penalty, only if obviously intentional should it be penalized. Just make it a faceoff in the opposing team's zone.
You really want officials to determine whether or not a puck was put over the glass intentionally? Do you watch NHL hockey? Have you seen these officials? No way, not gonna happen. Just like high sticking, doesn’t matter if you didn’t mean to or not. That’s the rule and players need to not put the puck over the glass.
Elbowing penalties were called a lot more frequently before face shields/helmets when there was contact to the head from the glove on up. Some of those are now called as roughing, but you really don't see many elbowing calls anymore.
One of the greatest videos you've made Shannon. Your ability to provide rich content and present it with humour is priceless! Thank you for all you hard work.
P.S. I would prefer NHL going back to one referee, having two didn't really help did it?
I personally think they NHL should give the linesmen the authority to call any penalties or rule infractions they see; I think there would be less issues with the officiating if instead of there being 1 referee and two linesmen(the old system) and the current more crowded 2 referees and 2 linesmen, they NHL simply had 3 officials on the ice, 3 officials who all had the same authority to call a penalty. As how many times have we seen a Linesmen see a penalty; but they are powerless to actually call the penalty they saw, then have to go slow or stop the game to consult and talk to the referee; the games would be faster as there would be no need for a linesmen to go " number 12 on the Leafs was holding number 3 on the Jets behind you back" If the linesmen himself could actually make the call and give out penalties too. To me I think it would be better if the NHL scrapped the whole Referee and Linesmen titles and simply called all three Officials and gave all three the same power and authority on ice
Classic Stalin, never was a team player
@@humblelad ?
@@josephstalin4906 i'll try to rephrase it: Classic Stalin, always wanting less people (referring to all the deaths because yk)
@@Mega-rw8mt It's 2023 mate, try to do a research before posting nonsense about deaths related to Stalin, it's nothing but lies.
On the topic of helmets, I very much dislike the new rules about having to get off the ice as soon as you lose your helmet, assuming you can't get it back on right away. I feel like I've seen more players moving through dangerous situations without helmets since this rule change than we ever did before.
Thanks for a wonderful presentation! Beginning with the 1970-1971 season, the NHL ruled that the home team would wear white, and the away team would wear colors, ending a very old custom in the league. Then, beginning with the 2003-2004 season, the NHL reversed itself, and went back to having the away team wearing white again. It is surprising that the shoot-out is not on the list.
Been watching hockey for well over a decade, had never even heard of a Rover. One of my favorite videos so far!
They need to go to three point games.
The fact some games award 3 points, some 2 is stupid.
3 points for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win, and 1 for an OT loss
I'm honestly surprised this rule wasn't mentioned: Before the 1949-50 NHL season, the NHL passed a rule stating that no goaltender can be captain of team. This is sometimes called "The Bill Durnan Rule", named after the Montreal Canadiens goaltender, who was Captain of the team and would have disputes with the referees, which the other 5 teams stated that it gave the Canadiens unwanted breaks of the game.
The dumbest rule ever.
In the interest of full disclosure I noticed Black Hawks prospect goalie Drew Commesso wore the 'A' this year at Boston University. I know it's not the NHL but still something.
roberto luongo was canucks captain
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I remember that, it was awhile ago. It just struck me as odd since I assumed no goalies at any level could wear the 'A' or 'C' .
Interesting fact on the red line: if you notice the red line is not solid. This is because on a black and white TV a blue and redline look exactly the same. So they broke up the redline to distinguish it from the blue line on a black and white TV. We still do it to this day.
Can't the lines be distinguished by the fact alone that the red line is in the middle of the field?
@@pauljmorton they didn’t have all the cameras we do now. It was usually just 1. If the play was in the middle of the ice, then you may only see 2 lines. So it helps to know which one is red. Also remember TVs black then were really small so being able to easily distinguish the lines helped identify where on the ice the play was.
And that's why it's called Blue Harvest
@@pauljmorton mmm i think you mean ice...
Great video Shannon but what about the introduction of the trapezoid and going to hybrid icing? Love the icing rule as I feel it has helped cut down on a lot of injuries but I still don't care for the trapezoid, I like watching the goalies be more involved in the game.
I say we reinstate allowing 2 goalies... put one behind the net so the other NEVER LEAVES THE NET
I’d love to see some pre-season games trying things out like bringing the Rover back, just to see what it’s like
I played and followed hockey a ton in the late 90’s and early 2000s but then I had gotten away from it for a while. I started watching it again after the 2 line pass was removed from the game and I was very confused back then.
I think some more subtle changes that you missed were the mandatory visor as well as the cant take off own helmet rules. Those two rules have done more to decrease knockdown fights than anything else. Most fights now are barely wrestling as a result.
B&W TVs is also why the center line (red line) is a dashed line - to differentiate it from the blue lines.
Helmets did lead to more high sticks, but it might be due as much to the weight of the sticks. There is still no reason, in my opinion, for a stick to be above your shoulder, but you always see guys waving at pucks or going into the boards with their sticks above their heads.
New fan to hockey. Truly appreciate the rules and history videos.
Welcome
The changes in goaltending styles was quite a transition, from the standard 'stand-up' style, stacking the pads, kick saves etc., as well as the equipment. Ken Dryden had his pads measured a few times, as well as stick size. As a goaltender in the mid-late '70's, watching goaltenders on their knees 99% of the time today makes me think if we played that way back then we'd get some strange looks. lol
True. Also most goalies are not as large as they are today
Some of these 6' 4"+ goalies still cover so much room up top.....and back in the 70s those pads soaked up water , getting so heavy by the 3rd period
@@damonwebb813 So true, the equipment sucked, the first pads I wore were stuffed with horse hair! lol There were many battle scars at the end of a game, many bruises on shoulders and arms! Not to mention face, neck & head protection.
Check out old footage of Tony Esposito, who spent more time on his knees, and dropping and flopping dramatically then he ever did standing up.
@@stillkickinbandgeorgianbay900 he was famous for his 'butterfly', perhaps he was the innovator for that style in years to come. "Tony O' was second as my favorite all time goaltender to Ken Dryden.👍
@@Lazzar1958 Great respect, and kudos to Tony. He could be unbelievable when his team needed him the most.
Montreal single handledly changing the power play rule because they were that good is funny to me lmao.
The league can thank those Montreal teams for minimizing the damage of the Oilers power play this year lol
Since uniform colors were mentioned multiple times - the NHL teams switched from wearing dark jerseys at home to wearing whites at home for the start of the 1970-71 season (or so I've read in multiple sources). So if home teams were wearing whites in 1951-52 that got changed somewhere well before 1970, got changed again for '70-'71 and again for 2003-04.
I seem to remember a year during the mid nineties where they had home teams wear their dark uniforms at home for part of the season. Maybe my memory is shot.
Roger Nielson would have tried 2 goalies for sure. I would support ties if they went to the Football style (soccer) where you get 1 point for a tie and 3 points for a win. That would really push teams to win and not just play for a tie.
I remember Roger Neilson telling his goalie to leave his stick just in front of the goal line when he pulled the goalie for an extra attacker at the end of a game. If anyone could find a loophole in the rules, it'd be Roger!
Great video as always Shannon - I would say one that was big and added in 2020 was the penalty assessed to a failed challenge in 2020. That really means you have to be careful in challenges and it has helped flow of play a lot. Prior to that it felt like a lot of coaches threw hail Mary’s more on plays that were clearly called correctly. I actually like the change - it allows for better game flow / less delays
I was told that after the second referee was introduced, Pat Quinn quoted "Great. Now they can be twice as bad".
Somewhere during the late 1950s or early 1960s, they switched back to white for road teams and dark for home teams, because in 1967, Montreal wore red in the Montreal Forum and Toronto wore blue in Maple Leaf Gardens during the Cup Finals (they both wore white as the away team). Also, during the 1972 Summit Series, Canada wore red in the 4 games in Canada while the Soviets wore white, then they switched colours when the series shifted to Moscow for the other 4 games. The NHL went back to white for home and dark for away around 1975, which became the norm until 2003-04.
In 2005-06, I believe both the shootout and the trapezoid behind the nets were introduced. I'm guessing someone had enough with ties and wanted all games decided with a win and a loss (may as well get rid of the points system if that is the case). As for the trapezoid, the league wanted more offensive zone time because Team A dumps the puck in, the goalie of Team B flicks it back out, no zone pressure from Team A.
On top of helmets being mandatory, visors were made mandatory in the early to mid 2010s (everyone remembers the Leo Komarov penalty because he had his visor positioned wrong). And now helmets during warm-ups were recently made mandatory. Pretty soon, we'll be seeing full face shields become the norm (though helmets during warm-up being mandatory has been discussed since Taylor Hall tripped over a puck and his face was stepped on by a teammate's skate during a warm-up about a decade ago, so it was only a matter of time before the mandate would occur).
It's interesting that watching the Bruins two Stanley Cup wins in the early 70's you can see when the rule changed on uniforms. They won the Stanley Cup at home in 1970 and were wearing the dark uniforms. They won it in 1972 on the road (MSG) and were again wearing the dark uniforms. So that's when the rule changed.
I remember watching old VHS tapes from the NHL and people would throw ties on the ice if a team went on a streak of tying multiple games in a row. That’s pretty funny, not gonna lie.
the thing with the 3 minute penalties/scoring doesn't end the penalty situation... in lacrosse there are releasable and non-releasable penalties depending on the penalty and the severity of the penalty itself. I think that having 2 minute penalties being releasable and then double minor penalties (and/or majors) being non-releasable in hockey would be interesting to see
Eliminate the shootout and make each penalty in OT a penalty shot; would probably make the overtimes more exciting than "keep away till the shootout".
Interesting video. I can’t imagine every power play going the full 2 minutes. I agree with you about the dark uniforms as home. I liked going to games and having the visitors wear dark sweaters. Really makes it feel like they’re out of place in another team’s arena. As a goalie, 2 big changes I’m not a fan of are the trapezoid and when they shaved down the goal crease
I’m surprised you missed this one.
I can’t remember the exact year but the 80s islanders Al Arbor was the head coach and he would pull his goal tender because they used to get a few minutes to warm up the the replacement goaltender.
He would abuse the rule so he could just get a free time out .
It would work something like this. Pull the goalie warm them up for a couple minutes while he give the guys a rest and talk over stuff and then the next whistle you would swap them back for the starting goaltender.
I don't like the fact that some games are worth 2 points and some 3 points. If you lose in 60 minutes you get zero points, but if you lose between 60 and 65 minutes you then deserve a point? That's ridiculous.
I preferred every game being worth 2 points no matter the results. And if it was tied after 65 minutes, each team had 1 point and that was that.
I also wish they kept the shooutouts for international tournaments and all star skills competitions only.
Just wanna say shannon that I appreciate these videos and everything you do. These in depth topic videos are amazing and your input is great to hear. you're a big inspiration to me and I hope you continue to give us content for as long as you can(or want to but I'm sure you want to do it for a long time)
The Rule of Teams Changing The Jerseys From White To Dark As Home Jerseys Was Kinda Odd To Me Caused I Liked The White As The Home Jersey!
Same I still prefer Home team wearing white and Road team wearing dark jerseys.
This year when Buffalo and Pittsburgh played in Buffalo they both wore their Reverse Retro jerseys so it made me nostalgic watching it.
Though I think they should change it again so that both teams could wear whatever they wanted for games. Picture quality is really good now and nobody is watching on a black and white TV so it shouldn't matter.
The only time they would have to enforce players to wear different colors is if they have the same color scheme. Toronto/Tampa or Pittsburgh/Boston.
💯. I’m still not over it. It still looks weird. It’s NFL BS.
It really didn't matter to me, but I can understand the change. Not only from a marketing point of view but as a team and fan point of view. If you are playing in your home arena shouldn't you be wearing your teams primary colors? And the reason dark jerseys sell better is because they are the primary color scheme of the team. So it did look and feel a little odd going to a game say in Boston against Pittsburgh and 90 percent of the crowd were wearing dark jerseys that are pretty close to the visitors' color. That's how I see the change anyways. You have to admit it's kinda fun to see who, or how many are fans of a visiting team.
Hold on. They only introduced the idea of white home uniforms in the 70s and I, for one, hated the idea. I wanted MY team to have the coolest uniform on the ice.
@@psnaris didn't you watch the video? White for the home team was a rule put in in the 50s.
2:15 I was a football/soccer fan before I was introduced to hockey so I assume the rover position is similar to the midfielder position in football.
That's not a bad analogy.
I think an interesting new rule for overtime would be 5 mins 4v4, then go down to 5 mins 3v3.
My recollection of reading about the one goaltender days was that there wasn't an emergency goalie like these days. Rather, the team would have to dress a skater to put in net.
some info on the light/dark uniforms. Home teams wore dark until the 1970-71 season, not light at home. Think of Orr's famous flying goal. May 10 1970, at home in Boston is a good example. I recall the sweater change at the time, and hated it. The league went to whites at home from 1971/1972 to 2002/2003 season, when they came to their senses and went back to darks at home...
WOW, this makes me feel old. I've been watching hockey since before helmets were mandatory - but I thought that happened in the '90s 😬
Two line pass really opened-up the ice.
Shannon you should look at NHL rule changes caused by Roger Neilson
I believe the 2-line pass elimination really changed the game also
I definitely remember seeing a documentary about the history of hockey where they said that the guys who laid down the rules for the first known actual hockey game with rules, loosely based the rules on rugby.
I'm old enough to remember Ron Duguay sans helmet. What FLOW!
Not when he first came in the league. He got the rookie haircut and all the flow was chopped off. It took a while to grow back.
I vaguely remember the 2 line pass rule but wasnt a real fan until 2002 hurricanes cup run. 1st ever game was game 2 NJ that run. 2-1 OT
What about the instigator rule in around 1992?
Love your channel Shannon. May I point out that you missed a big one, (although it is off-ice), and that is the introduction of the draft lottery. Cheers!
“Tell him hes Wayne Gretzky” lol
Considering how the Carolina series ended, I'm surprised Puck over Glass didn't make the list.
one you did not mention was the Goalie Trapezoid...i really do not like that one. If a Goalie is good at playing the puck - more power to him! I think roving goalies provide great entertainment...
Isn't that also to protect the goalies from getting steamrolled by forwards playing the wall
The Marty Brodeur rule.
And also, soooooooo dumb
@@dAiMYoBeArThere should be risk involved with leaving the crease…
Leave the time as-is for penalties, but remove the '56 rule where after a goal, the minor penalty was over.
One of the better changes was limiting the amount of commercial breaks and speeding up the face off drop. Hockey games used to be 3 hours +, now they are 2.5 hours and it’s a much better product. Unfortunately, play review has slowed that down a bit. But it’s much better than football and basketball which likes to drag out the last couple of minutes of the game into 15-20 minutes full of timeouts and commercial breaks. Baseball is on another level or long, where a team can switch pitchers as much as they want causing 5 minute breaks with each change.
Just wanted to say rest in peace to steve the enforcer, he was a huge part of the hockey jersey collecting community to me
I love the home team wares dark and away is white makes more sense, when you’re home ware your colors.
Going back to the no passing forward rule. Were there always blue lines in hockey? I could see no passing forward if there were no offsides in hockey. Just wondering.
I kinda miss the 2 line pass but I've always had a greater appreciation of the defensive side of the game over offensive
One rule most people might not be aware of is that goalies used to serve their own penalties, leaving someone else on the team to protect the net. In 1949-50, a rule was made so that a teammate would serve the goalie's penalty instead.
I would like to see that rule brought back. If the goalie commits the penalty, he should have to serve it. Put in the backup during the penalty kill. Additionally, you'd have to put someone else in the box for when the penalty expires, since you can't have 2 goalies on the ice.
@@EvanEscher What would be the logistics of getting your goalie back out of the box without a whistle? Be forced to pull your goalie and skate the other out from the box? Seems like a pretty absurd change to me and would result in a near guaranteed goal if attempted.
@@chrismdb5686 you'd have to wait until the next whistle after the 2 minutes are up. The skater "serving" the penalty would exit the box when 2 minutes up are though.
@@EvanEscher So essentially they get a 2+whatever power play depending on how long you go with no whistle. Sounds like a really bad idea to me unless you want to let goalies stick a shiv in their equipment.
@@chrismdb5686 I don't think you get what I'm saying. It would still be a 2 minute PP (5-on-4), 2 men go to the box (goalie & skater serving penalty). When PP is over, skater exits the box, returning to full strength, and goalie leaves box at first whistle after PP is over.
One big rule you forgot was the foot in crease rules and the controversy over those
Now I know the proper term for Tyler Myers- he's a Rover! Thanks for the great explanations of rule changes!
Awesome video. Thanks shannon
The memories...thank you for this video!
Great video, thank you! Subscribed
I feel another big one is the no touch icing
Surprised you didn't mention the trapezoid. As a goalie myself, I've never met a goalie who ever liked that one, heh. Would love a sequel to this video btw. So many more interesting rule changes to dig into. I personally enjoy the ones related to Roger Neilson :P
...that whole puck over the glass for delay of game...was that before or after unlimited curve on your stick...?
I would add in 2005-06, "Shootout added to the end of 5 min. 4 on 4 OT." OT itself changed from 5 on 5 to 4 on 4 back in 1999.
One goalie at a time -> Roger Neilson would have tried it.
When I got my coaching certifications… at the seminar Dave Karpa (former NHL defenseman in the 90s-00s) was a guest speaker, and he called the post 2005 lockout modern NHL a “glorified adult league.”
I would love to see more diversity in penalty length! A slash is worse than holding, a minor charging is worse than hooking, etc!
It never once dawned on me that the ice is painted white lmao
We are overdue for another rule change
Give the goalies switchblades they can pull in the event they get trucked by a forward. We won't see goons try it ever again
Do you thin the NHL will go to a full shield/cage mask for skaters, and if so what do you think the effect on shot blocking would be?
Unlikely, and a minimal effect at most.
You missed one. Remember when Sean Avery screened Marty Brodeur? Imagine the sport if they didn't change the rules (very next day) to prevent that from ever happening again 😂
Love videos like this!!
Just looking at that list, you didn't mention the elimination of the 2 line pass rule. A rule I would like to see implemented is the power play where if you score shorthanded, the penalty is also ended.
Hockey guy tonight I learned they do NOT end PPs on a goal for majors. Boy, that is rough!
Shannon! Where's the Zebra Jersey?
This is very interesting - ty Shanon.
3 on 3 OT and the change of wearing jerseys are the best 2 rules there are.
3 on 3 Ot is stupid and I can’t stand it, if a regular season game goes to OT I shut it off
No mention of 05-06 with the trapezoid and elimination of the two-line pass rule?
3 points for a regulation win, 2 for OT and a point for the loser, 1 each for shootout. Can't keep giving teams points for "winning" a shootout when they didn't win the game.
Yes!
Make all games worth 3 points
Great video. I love the historical aspects of the game. Now lets either get rid of the "Loser Point" in hockey, or make every game a 3 point game: 3 points for a regulation win. 2 for OT win, and 1 for making it to OT (The Loser Point). Awarding 2 points in regulation games and 3 points in OT games is screwed up. It dilutes the standings.
If there was no line at Center Ice how did they call icing?
The no forward pass rule is a legacy of field hockey, which also eventually eliminated that rule (the evolution of field hockey rules is similarely fascinating).
You should do one on how the 1st pro game was played in the US. Professional hockey is a US sport.
The 1 goalie rule was brought in when they had a premonition of Roger Nielsen
such an interesting video! please more history!
One thing I'll never understand is why people don't want to see their home colors on home ice, my basketball loving friends love the white jerseys at home and I just don't get it. Why wouldn't you want to see your teams colors at home???
I believe it originated in baseball, which was the first big professional team sport in North America. In baseball the home team wore white and the road team wore dark, which through most of baseball history was gray. So the sports following baseball copied its example, even though they didn't have the dingy gray that baseball had. Football, though, the home team, except for the Dallas Cowboys, always usually wore the dark jerseys at home.
I think that the hybrid icing, delayed calls, and the Brodeur trapezoid are rule changes that have massively affected how the game is played
Mostly love the video but Shannon, how do you miss the “Marty Rule” that was implemented to limit Brodeur’s puck handling via the trapezoid?!
Also, will they ever incoporate the Olympic size ice into arenas?
The elimination of ties has consigned to the dust bin of history some sportswriter's great (to my mind) line, "underwhelmed 38, overwhelmed, 30, whelmed 12."
When did icing come in? I remember hearing, years ago, that it was in response to the great Canadiens teams establishing a lead and then tossing the puck down the rink at the least difficulty. And, if I remember correctly, no change of on ice personnel is a relatively recent tweak to the icing rule.
I miss the home whites saying, "Rangers," while the road blues said, "New York."
Great video.
Can we get a video on the best Rover of all time?
The recent icing change too
For context with the helmet rule - Bill Masterton died due to his head hitting the ice in 1968. It would be 11-12 years after that until the league finally made helmets mandatory.
Also another huge rule was limiting the amount of curve on a blade, esp when guys started using the banana blade😅
One of the biggest rule changes was in 1798 when the NHL got rid of pistol duels to decide games tied at the end of regulation.
What about adding the trapezoid as well
I'd love to see OT reverted back to 4-on-4, and then 2nd OT being 3-on-3. And then if it's STILL not decided, go for shootout cause we gotta go home at some point, but I feel like that would bring down the number of shootouts significantly, as well as make them more intense again. The fun of a shootout is when it's rare, so there's a lot of intensity. Right now, just feels like it's all too common.
I liked 4-on-4 better than 3-on-3, which just looks lame tbh. I would extend it to 8 minutes, and get rid of the shootout. If no one scores in OT, call it a tie.
TV probably made it 3 on 3 as they wanted a quicker result. I personally hate the shootout rule but it's better than the old system where teams were say 31-31-11-4 in the standings.
I remember when i think it was Andie Moog had that super huge glove ....and the outrage, now everybody has a huge glove, with a cheater pad covering the hole at the wrist
Would be fun to see Shannon do a similar video like this
BUT on goalie equipment development, also one on stick technology too