I believe the rule change was a good idea as it was to stop the hand checking and pushing players with the forearm. It also was to stop the guy getting to the charge spot late. And I think,it has stopped those things..
What has also happened because of some misinterpretation of the new rules, there is to be NO CONTACT at all, which some have rightly pointed out is impossible.
I feel that the players have done a better job of trying to change. But now have decided to just not play defense at all and coaches are really not going to like that.
Things will change, and this will become just a bad dream. But it will be a loss which really stinks the most.
(gets down off of soap box, adjusts tinfoil hat and waddles off to the nearest Cold Stone Creamery)