I Thought The NHL Was Going To Make Changes To Increase Scoring

[Tofveve]

In Calgary we'll be lucky to have a 20 goal scorer this year.

Is anyone on pace to hit 50? Maybe Sidney because of the fewer games played.

Fact is outside of the Rangers and maybe the Pens, league scoring has to be way down - it's certainly not up.

The simple adjustment proposed was the goalie pads. Did they do it?

Anyway, some tweaking is needed. I remember when Calgary had 3 50-goal scorers. Now we might not have a 20 goal scorer and that's pathetic.

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[Fixed to Ruin]

In Calgary we'll be lucky to have a 20 goal scorer this year.

Is anyone on pace to hit 50? Maybe Sidney because of the fewer games played.

Fact is outside of the Rangers and maybe the Pens, league scoring has to be way down - it's certainly not up.

The simple adjustment proposed was the goalie pads. Did they do it?

Anyway, some tweaking is needed. I remember when Calgary had 3 50-goal scorers. Now we might not have a 20 goal scorer and that's pathetic.

The thing about the NHL is that they quickly change then quickly change back.

Just call the hooking and holding as it is written in the rule book. Let the players adjust to the new standard. Also ban offsides.

 

[El Travo]

In Calgary we'll be lucky to have a 20 goal scorer this year.

Is anyone on pace to hit 50? Maybe Sidney because of the fewer games played.

Fact is outside of the Rangers and maybe the Pens, league scoring has to be way down - it's certainly not up.

The simple adjustment proposed was the goalie pads. Did they do it?

Anyway, some tweaking is needed. I remember when Calgary had 3 50-goal scorers. Now we might not have a 20 goal scorer and that's pathetic.

Maybe Calgary needs to get good?

 

[LeafFever]

Here comes the "Why Does Everyone Want More Scoring" crowd. Scoring is good for business.

 

[Thepainter]

Take a look at the SJ game. The league literally just handed a welfare goal to ANA

 

[Machinehead]

Here comes the "Why Does Everyone Want More Scoring" crowd. Scoring is good for business.

That must be why professional soccer doesn't have a pot to **** in right?

It has nothing to do with the score up on the board. It's about the flow of the game. Dump and chase is boring but it works. The game is coached boring and there's nothing that's going to change that.

If you make the pads smaller or the nets bigger, you'll have the same boring game with a few more weakass goals scored from 60 feet away.

 

[Ducks DVM]

Take a look at the SJ game. The league literally just handed a welfare goal to ANA

Well, Burns did, anyway.

 

[LeafsLegendAkiBerg]

Maybe Calgary needs to get good?

This. Just because Calgary doesn't have any 20 goal scorers doesn't mean the NHL is broken. It means Calgary is broken.

But seriously, we should just have a sticky for complaints about scoring/refs.

 

[Duke749]

I swear they stopped calling tripping like two and a half weeks ago. I can't even count the amount of times guys have been tripped with no call in the games I've watched recently.

 

[Caeldan]

We're currently at 5.4 goals per game. That's plenty of scoring. 4+ goal games (for one team) SHOULD be rare.
And odd time to post this considering half the games completed so far tonight have 6 or 7 goals in them.

The reason we have fun watching a 6-4 game is because it doesn't happen always. Otherwise we run into the basketball effect where you only need to watch the final five minutes or so because the first 55 have no real impact on the game because the lead resets so many times.

 

[Tofveve]

Maybe Calgary needs to get good?

I knew this would be a post lol. We lost Gaudreau and MonaHan is being exposed. Bennett is stepping up as of late.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

No, the NHL just has a long history of pretending like they're going to do something to try to increase scoring:

http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/14207776/nhl-brief-history-nhl-pretending-fix-scoring

 

[Stud Muffin]

We're currently at 5.4 goals per game. That's plenty of scoring. 4+ goal games (for one team) SHOULD be rare.
And odd time to post this considering half the games completed so far tonight have 6 or 7 goals in them.

The reason we have fun watching a 6-4 game is because it doesn't happen always. Otherwise we run into the basketball effect where you only need to watch the final five minutes or so because the first 55 have no real impact on the game because the lead resets so many times.

I'd like to see 4-3 be the norm instead of 3-2.

 

[Tofveve]

Take a look at the SJ game. The league literally just handed a welfare goal to ANA

Exactly.

 

[BackHandShelf22]

I think it was on the Marek and Wysh podcast they said Vasilevskiy is one of the guys wearing the new streamline goalie pants. Well to this point he's having an amazing season. Go figure.

 

[HarryLime]

changes need to be made tbh. game is too constricted

 

[Quarter]

Yeah, just because Calgary doesn't have anyone that can score 20 goals doesn't mean scoring is down. That just means Calgary is less-than-good.

 

[Hobble]

Laine hasn't scored in 5.
Obviously that is why league scoring is down.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Give the goalies shin pads instead of goalie pads an we'll see 20-19 games. Problem solved.

 

[Tofveve]

This. Just because Calgary doesn't have any 20 goal scorers doesn't mean the NHL is broken. It means Calgary is broken.

But seriously, we should just have a sticky for complaints about scoring/refs.

You can't really say this. The fact is scoring can't be so woefully nonexistent even for basement dwellers.

 

[Samsquanch]

I'd like to see some changes implemented next year.

I was never a fan of the idea of making the nets bigger, but I'm starting to believe that would be a step in the right direction. The goalies are just do damn good, too damn big and athletic, and the equipment is all XXL oversized.

I also like the idea I saw out there about making the blue line "fatter" and stretching deeper down into the opponents zone.

You can't remove the blueline without fundamentally changing hockey, but this would really help to open up that clogged up neutral zone.

 

[Machinehead]

Making the nets bigger would create a gigantic burst like we saw in 05-06 and then once everyone got used to it, it would normalize.

All that does is create artificial goals without changing the game.

 

[Redline]

I'm finding this to be one of the better years in the last 5-6 in terms of entertainment. That works just fine for me.

 

[Tofveve]

I'd like to see some changes implemented next year.

I was never a fan of the idea of making the nets bigger, but I'm starting to believe that would be a step in the right direction. The goalies are just do damn good, too damn big and athletic, and the equipment is all XXL oversized.

I also like the idea I saw out there about making the blue line "fatter" and stretching deeper down into the opponents zone.

You can't remove the blueline without fundamentally changing hockey, but this would really help to open up that clogged up neutral zone.

I think you could modify the post diameter slightly without seeming like you're tinkering too much. Some of the shots off the post might just go in instead. But shaving goalies pads some would also help. Just these modifications alone would probably increase scoring by a goal per game.

 

[LeafsLegendAkiBerg]

You can't really say this. The fact is scoring can't be so woefully nonexistent even for basement dwellers.

Sure it can. That's why you're a basement dweller.

Soccer is the most popular game in the world and it's even lower scoring than hockey.