As a child, my father drove me across the snow-covered state of Wisconsin for countless youth hockey games. Although he was often pretty busy with work calls, we’d sometimes debate various topics, a few related to hockey. When I was in high school and the NHL started looking for solutions to create high-scoring games, my father had a bold solution that I scoffed at:
“Hey, what if shorthanded teams couldn’t ice the puck?”
The idea was completely laughable, me being an insufferable, indignant teenager aside. You want to take away shorthanded team’s ability to ice the puck?