Bettman says he’s okay if you want to bring back the rule against forward passes, he doesn’t mind if you want to revert to old-school icing, he just demends you keep it to one rule change; you know, evolution is better than revolution…
What rule are you changing, tweaking, binning or creating.
In this day and age, where sports are as much about betting as players, any league that DOESN’T put their referees in public display is just asking for manipulation and problems and any smart fan (and owner) should see red flags.
Imagine a league where the refs are subject to public criticism… Doesn’t mean a bad job gets fired, but they should drive more training and classes to get consistency right (nobody should lose their job unless they really can’t cut it).
Anyway, that won’t happen. They don’t care about the fans, they care about the revenue.