Hockey: New NCAA rules and Michigan 2010-2011 schedule
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-hockey/sched/mich-m-hockey-sched.html
Schedule.
http://www.uscho.com/news/college-hockey/id,18657/ContacttoHeadCrackdow…
New rules:
Shorthanded icing. >:o
"hybrid" icing
every contact to the head penalty is a major penalty and a game misconduct/disqualification
goalies change sides for OT
PP is awarded even if a goal is scored on the delayed call
no obtainable pass
I'm not sure how I feel about now shorthanded icing. Should be interested to see how that will play out and how much teams' PP percentage increases as a result. I like the hybrid icing though.
I've been wondering when the schedule was coming out, because it was getting to be about the itme it normally comes.
Interesting rule changes too. $20 says Llewellyn picks up a contact to the head major in the exhibition against the U-18 team.
"PP is awarded even if a goal is scored on the delayed call"
that's a game changer immediately. to score two goals bc of goon hockey? wow.
see this as that big of a rule, honestly. How often does a team score on a delayed PP call? With the new icing on PK, PP percentages will rise, but it's still nowhere even close to a sure things. In the exact wrong situation, it could cost you two goals, yes, but I doubt it happens often at all. I don't mind this rule. I DESPISE shorthanded icing. With a strong passion. ARGHHHH!! Forrest now joins Gary on my most hated people list. Hybrid icing, ehh, I like the concept but I don't like making the refs make more decisions.
As for contact to the head... It seemed like every third penalty (on both sides) last year involved constact to the head. I don't condone killing people oviously and there are cases where a major is definitely right and necessary. But making EVERY contact to the head HAVE to be 5 and a misconduct seems excessive. What's interesting now is how the refs will call it. Do they call the same penalties and just use a different name to avoid the mandatory major? Do they let the smaller things slide altogether? Or do they just throw people out right and left if necessary? A lot of the contact can be avoided sure, but it's hockey and the way so many penalties were designated contact to the head last year... that could get really ugly, really fast.
PP is awarded even if a goal is scored on the delayed callbut also kind of terrifying at the same time
Some good, some bad.
I think the hybrid icing and contact to the head are good rules, but the two involving penalties are just dumb.
No Shorthanded Icing takes away everything you're taught to do on a penalty kill, and it will just lead to more goals/less of the better team winning (Hockey, at it's heart, is a 5 on 5 game, yes, special teams are important, but this is like if football all of a sudden had 3 downs instead of 4, and field goals were worth 10) That's a dumb rule in my mind.
The powerplay being awarded even if a goal is scored on delay is stupid too. Maybe you can put the penalty in the books, count it from a "5 penalties and you're out" standpoint, but this again just makes more powerplay goals and goes to my point above
I can't shake the feeling that it would be amazing to put up 2 in a row on the delayed call/PP on FYS or ND
but at least one of them would probably be ruled a no-goal.
/rant
Every bit of penalty-kill coaching done in hockey thus far is now useless. Thank you NCAA for wasting it. This isn't a minor change and isn't a pro rule either (or OHL, as far as I know), so now we have a major, major disjoint in hockey between high school and college and the pros. Great.
This is absolutely horrible. Both the delayed penalty goal change and the shorthanded icing are inexcusable attempts to jack up the scoring, at the expense of gameplay. Absolutely. Inexcusable.
I don't think the PP after scoring a goal is a big deal. It rarely happens anyway. However, I don't like the new icing rules at all. A referee should be left to make judgement calls as little as possible, given the quality of refereeing we get, and not being able to ice on a PK is not only cruel, but its a huge difference from the NHL, which we're trying to prove we're better at producing players for than the OHL.
Even as a life-long hockey player (and somewhat of a goon at that), I kind of like the idea of shorthanded icing. Your team committed a foul, why should you basically get free relief if you get possession of the puck while killing the penalty? You cheated, pay the consequences.
Edit: In all fairness, I may change my feelings once I see it in action and how teams respond to it. I think it could be interesting to see how the PK team handles the puck once it gets on their stick. Who knows, maybe it turns out to be a great change once teams become accustomed to it.
Remember, it could always be worse - they could have changed the dimensions of the net.
...teams on the PK to clear the zone by lifting the puck into center ice vice blasting it to the opposite boards, won't teams on the PP suffer because they'll have a lot less ice to regroup and create an effective rush into the attacking zone?
Also, re: the schedule, that looks pretty favorable to us. The only obvious Big Game before the Showcase is @ UNH. Lots of games against FYS, of course, but of the other CCHA royalty, we only have one series with Miami & ND (ok, calling ND royalty when they're coming off a losing season might be a stretch, but they've showed enough in recent years). Can't take anything for granted ever, of course, as we learned last year, but I like our chances to challenge for a CCHA title this year.
will probably get reversed when every team's PP percentage is at 100. A man advantage is more than enough.
calm down. It's not going to affect it THAT much. A 10% inrease would surprise me. A bit. It will affect some teams more than others. I don't think we will be that affected, because we're a pretty aggressive PK and I feel like when it's known it can be game-planned for and that there are times when PKers don't change a lot even when they can. It lengthens games and PKs, because of all the potential added face-offs (drop the puck!) and I think it could really exacerbate the differences between a certain style of PP and a certain style of PK, especially in the first season, to the point where in the wrong match-up of certain styles it could result in a pretty hefty PP% for that game, but no way it increases that significantly. I don't like the rule, I don't think it's necessary, I wish they wouldnt' have added it and if they hadn't of tweaked icing from pure no-touch I would be even more upset. I don't think it helps draw kids to NCAA instead of major junior when PK systems are now, of neccesity, likely going to be pretty different than a general NHL PK, because of the rule change, I HATE giving error-prone officials a better chance to affect the game, but it's not going to turn completely into a ref-decided outcome.
Just 10% would surprise you? I mean, you're basically saying teams will score just three or four extra power play goals all season long. It would flat-out shock me if that were the case. I think power-play efficiency will double. I bet you see it go up to between 35-40%.
The argument is often advanced that you shouldn't get an advantage if you break the rules, but your typical two-minute minor results in a goal about 20% of the time. (That's a little higher than actual PP efficiency, because actual efficiency includes a lot of power plays that aren't regulation length.) Isn't a 1-in-5 chance of being scored on penalty enough? A 40% chance of being scored on - which I think is what we'll see - is way too much for a silly two-minute hooking call. Especially given that we really don't trust the refs to always get it right.
I thought that last post through far less thoroughly than I should have. I was just so offended that the person I was replying to thought that PP% would go up to 100 that I had to take the extreme opposite side. 10% is far too little. I really do despise that rule and I've already E-mailed the PROP (http://web1.ncaa.org/committees/committees_roster.jsp?CommitteeName=PROP) with my dissatisfaction with that and the auto 5+10 for any contact to the head. They don't have much control over what they approve, "The "Playing Rules Oversight Panel" (PROP) is only able to veto rule changes for one of 3 reasons: Student-athlete safety, significant financial impact, and a negative impact on the integrity or image of the game" But I harped pretty heavily on the integrity of the game and even included a little bit of player safety, in the amount of time PKers would have to be on the ice, which is obviously going to make them more tired which then makes them more susecptible to injury. I somehow even managed to be polite, even to the refs in general and (much harder) Forrest Karr. I don't have much hope, but I had to try and do something. I encourage anybody else that cares to perhaps send an E-mail to them as well. It can't hurt. I doubt most/anybody on the PROP board knows much/anything about hockey, so any information given to them could possibly help them make a stunning decision and shoot the rule proposals down.
Shorthanded icing is monstrously stupid
Didn't realize BU was coming in for the GLI, that's pretty awesome!
Also, I kind of hope that trip up to Marquette for two the last weekend of the season doesn't mean a whole lot. That could be a nightmare.
I'm not totally against the shorthanded icing...especially considering the change to a hybrid rule. There could be some really interesting strategy that goes on now - High lofts down the ice with an instant attacker could actually result in more shorthanded goals than before. It will also shake up, in my opinion, penalty killing lines. Could actually turn out to be very exciting.
our only OOC games are @UNH and Mercyhurst?
I know the showcase and the GLi are there, but I'd like to see more OOC games and less exhibitions mid seasons vs the U18 USA team.
is WCHA now, so that series is out of conference. I believe playing NTDP does NOT count as a "countable" game and that because of the CCHA's 28 game conference schedule we have less OOC game available to us than teams in other conferences.
For those of you who weren't at Yost West in March, our only game this upcoming season at Munn is during State's winter break (Jan. 7th).