The NHL was meeting this week to discuss many things as they do
every year.  The discussed bringing in a second team to Toronto,
and of course what changes to the rules they could amend,
delete, or create for the 2009-2010 campaign.  This got me to
thinking myself about what could be changed next year, and I am
going to share with you a few of my ideas that may help the NHL
out next year.  Rule #1: Penalties in Overtime Now this rule
would probably not be implemented a lot, because referees tend
to put the whistles away for the five minute overtime unless it
is a blatantly obvious penalty.  However, I think that if a
player has committed a penalty with less than two minutes left
in a game, and it carries over to the overtime he should not be
allowed to participate in the shoot-out.   This goes for
overtime penalties as well.  The player can finish the period,
but can not be used in the shoot-out if it were to go that far. 
This goes for goalies as well.  If they take any penalties as
well they are not allowed