Oh god you want me to change ONE rule??? I'd change way, way more. But I'm going to start with the absolute bane of my existence: that god forsaken trapezoid rule. Having recently watched the Women's World Championship, and knowing that the NCAA and PWHL (the two women's leagues I'm most familiar with) do not use the trapezoid, watching goalies come out of their net only to have to wait for the puck caused me psychic damage. Watching a goalie handle the puck is genuinely some of the most fun stuff in hockey because they can start a counterattack with a saucer pass, or they can mess up leading to an easy scoring chance for the opposition. They've essentially legislated an entire skill out of the game, and have turned goalies into little more than eccentric shot stoppers. Whatever happened to seeing Marty Turco's adventures out of the crease?

Yeah yeah Brodeur existed, but he retired like ten years ago and even before that he had been out of his peak for a few years. Get rid of that stupid thing. FREE THE GOALIES.