Too many 10 minute misconduct penalties

[OSOSOS]

Just an observation from doing a few saves. It feels like there are an awful lot of 2 and 10s handed out. I would say that I see one every 2-3 games which seems way out of whack with reality.

Anyone else notice this?

[JeffR]

Yeah, we leaning on those a bit to make up for lower totals of other types of misconducts that would be more difficult for the game engine to handle. Once we've got that sorted out, it'll get toned down. But the overall PIM totals should work out about right.

[RedWings]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Yeah, we leaning on those a bit to make up for lower totals of other types of misconducts that would be more difficult for the game engine to handle. Once we've got that sorted out, it'll get toned down. But the overall PIM totals should work out about right.

Hi Jeff - that makes sense. A question and a suggestion:

Question:
What other misconduct will be included once the game engine can handle it? (something like combos of either a 10 and Game or 10 and Match Penalty? - it would be cool to see that happen now and then.)

Suggestion:
Since you're using increased 10's as a placeholder to get the PIMs to add up correctly, what would be more realistic is instead of assessing them with minors, add them on to fighting majors. Obviously not every fight - but to swap out the 2/10 for 5/10 (that's when misconducts generally are more likely to occur) ... maybe coincidental 5/10's on some fights.

That way the misconducts wouldn't seem so out of place.

Something else that might help the PIMs add up and keep the misconducts more realistic - would be to have combo minor/major penalties (that happens now and then) - a 2/5 (or even a 2/5/10 for something egregious) -- like a high-sticking/fighting or boarding/fighting. Or a nod of the helmet to the Randy Holts and Dave Schultz's of the world - the classic 2/5/10/GAME. (How many times did Schultzie get 27 PIM in one fell swoop back in the day?)

Also - maybe swap out some 10's for game misconducts - right now I'm seeing games handed out only for an illegal check to the head - how about attaching game misconducts to some fights? 5/GAME or 5/10/GAME?

Just some ideas.