To spice up hockey and get trick plays involved we must start from the ground up. In my eyes, to start from the ground up and make some trick plays exciting we must include the hockey version of the dunk contest, known as Trick Shot Contest. Think about all the theatrics from the dunk contest, teammates throwing lobs to the contestant, jumping over cars, mascots etc. Now bring that to hockey. Imagine seeing a player five hole Griddy spin around him, Datsyuk deke for a goal. That's the perfect example of what would be an attempt in the "SHL Trick Contest" Let's take it up a level, said participant leaves the ice JUMPS over his teammate his teammate passes it to the contestant through his legs and the contestant scores between his legs, and five holes the goalie. How about that for a 50/50 attempt? Hockey takes so much skill and creativity as it is, there could definitely be a contest to take the skills competition to a whole new level.