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Both the crease and obstruction rules were a great success.
The crease with the "3 second rule", and no contact was perfect. It really cleaned up the game, with no double goalie, no fucking with the goalie, and less clusterfucks in front of the goal. It produced more offensive situations, and more attractive pass based offense, as teams had to defender higher, and in a more active way.
Obstruction still needs a little work. The refs knew what it was trying to achieve, but it still seems there are some grey areas for the players to understand, so it may need rewording. But again it produced a more attractive game. Defenders were trying to make plays on the ball, not block attackers, Attackers were looking for the pass, not blocking out defenders.
Between the two rules, it also removed a lot of the shitty situations which can escalate, and turn games nasty. A lot less calls needed to be made in general (and not because of the quality of the refs, we had most of the top NA refs there)