Trevor Shackles: Proposing a Radical Idea Proposing a change in how goaltender interference is called

it should be no offensive player is allowed in the crease, period.

I agree that goalie interference is a huge grey area but feel placing a crease rule back in the game will cause just as much frustration, if not more. They took is out for a reason…

There just need to be better implementation and definition of the existing rule. Clearly the refs have zero idea what it is or not either. Go back to the drawing board an redefine what goalie interference is. In my opinion, any unforced goalie contact by the opposing player that interferes with the goaltenders ability to make a save inside the crease, is goalie interference. This should work if implemented correctly.

Goalies should be protected but I don’t think they need to go overboard. They do wear the most protection out there. Goalie interference situations don’t happen all that much and consistency of the calls is similar to kicking/redirecting a puck in the goal.

There will always be human error in hockey because it is so fast.

There are other rule changes that should be addressed first such as the penalty for shooting the puck over the glass should just be treated as icing.

I think a considerable shrinking of the crease and then disallowing goals if a skate is within the crease is fair. But only if the crease is shrunk by a lot.

Right now the crease is kind of meaningless and but if you put if a rule to disallow goals with skates in the current crease that would kill a lot of offense.

You still want players to be able to get in the goalies face but not be able to block them from saving it and you want something that is black and white so in a video review there shouldn't be much of a question aside from whether or not a player pushed the scoring team within the crease as it happened.

I think the only sensible and fair solution to this problem int he league is to have a tiny crease and disallow goals if scored with an opposing teams skate in the crease.

Bring back the 2 line pass too.

a new rule should be, in this scenario with Tkachuk and Nelson, Nelson gets a 2 min penalty. This would lower the amount of time players push opponents into their own tender and increase the amount of power plays and thus goals.

Trevor Shackles: Proposing a Radical Idea
Proposing a change in how goaltender interference is called
- Trevor Shackles

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a new rule should be, in this scenario with Tkachuk and Nelson, Nelson gets a 2 min penalty. This would lower the amount of time players push opponents into their own tender and increase the amount of power plays and thus goals.
- Athrin

So if a goal is disallowed because of contact that was created by the defending team, the defending team gets a minor penalty. That's a really good idea actually.

There are two distinct issues here: one is forwards running the goaltender, the other is defencemen using forwards as a way to delay the game.

Knocking the opposing player into the goaltender or directly into the goal post is functionally the equivalent of pushing the goal off its post. The d-man is just trying to use the opposing player as an excuse to delay the game, and prevent a high-percentage scoring play from developing. That should be a penalty, just like shooting the puck over the glass is a penalty.

Now if a forward makes no attempt to avoid the goaltender, that should clearly be a penalty for direct interference. In both cases, the play should be called dead as soon as the goaltender is interfered with in the blue paint, with a penalty called against either the d-man or forward depending on the perceived intent. Throw in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for goaltender diving in order to prevent that kind of BS, and you've covered off the bases.

it should be no offensive player is allowed in the crease, period.
- nyislsbossy

Just eliminate rebound chances all together.

Create a zone where the goalie cannot be touched. If the goalie ventures outside the area, he becomes like every other player, where he can be body checked. As long as the goalie is not touched, other than by incidental contact, the call on the ice should be goaltender interference.