StargateSG1
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https://sports.yahoo.com/puck-lists-ranking-nhl-players-proposed-rule-changes-142607484.html
Let's have some fun hockey talk, shall we?
Let's have some fun hockey talk, shall we?
Make the ice a bit bigger, put the lines back to where they should be, use wood sticks and small goalie gear.
Yeah, I'd like that. I think the key to bigger ice is that it just be a bit bigger. It doesn't have to be European size where guys are swimming in gobs of empty space. Just a bit bigger to give some elbow room.
Have to say that I found it humorous all of the times the article brought up not wanting to slow the game down. I think the NHL is fine slowing it down a bit. A few years ago when they really cut down on obstruction and had guys flying around unimpeded it seemed we saw a lot more injuries, mostly concussions. After that is when we saw interference creep its way back into the game.
Chip and chase should be a tactic that 5 underskilled but durable and speedy teams employ as their strategy, not a league wide arms race that results in the Pens and Preds lobbing pucks behind the defense for 60 minutes waiting for a break on net or a pinball power play. Results in so many uneventful games.
Chip and chase should be a tactic that 5 underskilled but durable and speedy teams employ as their strategy, not a league wide arms race that results in the Pens and Preds lobbing pucks behind the defense for 60 minutes waiting for a break on net or a pinball power play. Results in so many uneventful games.
I really agree with this, but I have no idea how to get rid of it. Remove the trapezoid? Enforce something about how the puck comes into the zone? I dunno. It's generally less interesting, hockey wise, to me than the really bad trap/grab-and-hold years were, and that's saying something.
I really agree with this, but I have no idea how to get rid of it. Remove the trapezoid? Enforce something about how the puck comes into the zone? I dunno. It's generally less interesting, hockey wise, to me than the really bad trap/grab-and-hold years were, and that's saying something.
The top teams don't really play like that. Pittsburgh, Chicago, Washington all play a puck possession oriented game.
I am all for the smaller goalie pads if we aren't making the net bigger. The game was way more exciting when there was more goal scoring in my opinion.
Make the ice a bit bigger, put the lines back to where they should be, use wood sticks and small goalie gear.
I never found goals to be the inherent goal to exciting hockey.
Is hockey the only major sport where they've allowed a primary playing instrument, the hockey stick, to go almost completely unregulated in terms of composition? Baseball, wisely, never got caught up in a material race opting for wood as the standard.
I don't like the idea of only shrinking goalie pads, because simply having more goals slip through the five-hole or under the arm will not make for a more entertain product. High scoring doesn't automatically make for a better product, particular at the expense of goalies struggling to keep a .900 sv%.
So take something from the shooters (composite sticks) while also taking some from the goalies. I think you need to be timid shaving goalie equipment. I think the biggest issue than equipment is the size and athleticism of the goalies increased way more. Ed Belfour and Patrick Roy used far, far larger equipment than modern goalies are using now. The gloves were bigger on both hands and the pads were wider. Belfour complained hard he couldn't catch the puck with the new gloves when they came at the end of his career. Roy and others used oversized jerseys to create a flying squirrel effect. But they were 5'11" and 6'2" respectively. And I wouldn't call either fitness freaks.
The AVERAGE for NHL goalies today is over 6'2". The average height then was 5'11". And of course it's not just the 3 plus inches of the body, but the wingspan of both the arms and legs.
I guess I'm not sure how great you'll make the game having skinny pads on guys 6'5" being forced to play more aggressively. Are big rebounds, open nets, and bobbled pucks exciting? I guess that depends on what you're looking for. I never found goals to be the inherent goal to exciting hockey.
It's far more about the flow of the play than the net result of scoring for me. Just some musings here. I have no idea how to make hockey better.
and that's the difference between a hardcore and casual fan. Casual fans don't really appreciate the finer points of the game, they just want to see lots of goals and fights