If you had to design a calendar with a goal of struggling to market a sport, you couldn’t do much worse than the NHL.
A league that reworked its playoff format to emphasize rivalries has successfully neutered them in the regular season.
A league in which high-level international competition is prized by most of its best players has successfully punted it off the calendar until this season, and could do so again in the future.
What is Gamechangers?
You’ve heard a referee explain a call and you’ve said this to yourself, to others or both:
“That’s such a dumb rule.”
You’ve been watching a game and you’ve said this to yourself, to others or both:
“Why don’t they change how they do that?”
We all follow sports. And we know when a rule needs changing or a league policy requires overhauling. So let’s do it.
Today begins a five-day series at The Post where our writers will argue for which rules need changing, what those changes should be and why. We’ll tackle the NFL, the NHL, the NBA, the WNBA and MLB — plus we’ll dabble in college sports, golf and soccer, too. No stone left unturned — and no silly rule left unchanged.
Some of our proposals are minor. Some of them are major. Some of them are completely radical.
Welcome to GameChangers by The Post.
— In our NFL series, we tackled the silliest rule in football, fixed the tanking problem and addressed the QB hypocrisy led by Patrick Mahomes.
A league that has had issues marketing its young stars for decades has successfully turned its amateur draft into a place where everybody goes to talk about free agency.
