Dan Rosen at NHL.com reports that NHL GMs and League personnel are proposing a stiffer penalty for so-called "staged" fights and a more aggressive approach to calling the instigator penalty.
The League wants a stiffer penalty for players who fight directly off a faceoff, which they determined that in most instances is a staged fight.
Instead of receiving the normal 5-minute major, the proposal is to tack on a 10-minute misconduct penalty to anybody who fights off a faceoff in hopes the stiffer result will begin to phase staged fights out of the game.
For comments from Colton Orr, the Ranger most effected by this rule change, go to Ranger Rants.
...and Bettman's plan to destroy hockey as we know it is almost complete.
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