from Frank Seravalli of TSN,

Tim Murray described it as a riff session.

Thankfully, the Buffalo Sabres’ GM said, there was someone from the NHL present in the room to keep notes as the league’s 30 general managers brainstormed by the beach on Tuesday morning.

They were divided evenly into three groups and asked to kick around a variety of topics, from hits to the head to new ways to create more scoring.

Not every idea is fully formulated or crystallized, but the hope is that assembling 30 of the brightest minds around the sport in the same swanky Boca Beach Club will spark an inventive new approach to a 100-year-old game.

“In these meetings you throw a lot of spaghetti up on the wall,” Predators GM David Poile said.

Most of it doesn’t stick.

“A lot of it will be poo-pooed right away,” Murray said.

It never hurts to try. Red Wings GM Ken Holland championed the idea of 3-on-3 overtime to reduce the number of shootouts for years, but hardly gained any traction until last year.

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