The MLB is supposedly considering changing their rules to incorporate the most radical rule change in the history of the game. The NHL should do the same.
Because baseball is painfully boring, they are always looking at ways to make it at least as exciting as golf, which has led to silly things like the pitch clock, and some obscure rules about when you can do pickoffs, and sometimes they even put a random dude on second base in extra innings.
The game is perfectly fine in my opinion, but I guess in a society where no one reads anything longer than a tweet, you've got to be open to new ideas.
Enter the "Golden At Bat" which means that teams, once per game, could defy the batting order and put anyone they want up to bat. This rule is so stupid it pains me to even explain it. It is self-evidently dumb, and further proof that we live in the stupidest universe in the multi-verse.
The NHL should adopt the "Golden Puck" rule
If baseball really wanted to address the boredom issue, it might consider making the playing surface slippery, letting everyone carry a bat at all times, and figuring out a way to incorporate more brawls - hockey has a lot of problems, but no one who isn't stuck in a mid-90s time loop thinks the game is boring.
But still, the Golden Puck is an intriguing idea, and could be incorporated into the NHL quite easily:
Whenever the game is tied with ten minutes left in the third period, the "golden boy" (a child who watches the game from the penalty box area) throws a literal golden puck onto the ice. He chooses the time, as long its less than ten minutes left, whenever he decides to throw the puck on the ice, the "Golden Puck" time commences.
There are now two pucks in play, and they each count for two goals. All penalties are suspended in a type of "purge" situation where each team is allowed to go into absolute melee mode. There are no substitutions allowed during the "Golden Puck" time, and there are no off-sides or icings either. Play continues uninterrupted until all the players on one team are too gassed to continue playing. A player is allowed to either exit the game via the bench, or to just lay down on the ice and create an obstacle until the whistle goes to end "Golden Puck" time.
If a goal is scored during "golden puck time" the goalie just fishes it out of his net road-hockey style and play continues until either time runs out or one team runs out of players.
Not only will this increase offense, but it will make the NHL even more entertaining than it already is. The NHL is typically pretty conservative with their rule changes, but if the MLB institutes the Golden at Bat, then the NHL is really going to have no choice but to make up their own completely idiotic rule.