I don't know what people want. The scoring is fine.
The game is about offense and defense. Just watching easy offense is not entertaining. Having to overcome resistance and still produce offense, is entertaining.
Can’t change net sizes, just keep reducing equipment till we reach a happy medium of safety and required skill
I mean, is real growth people who only are going watch the sport for easy goals?I dunno maybe to you but the NHL's lack of real growth imo (unless you consider a glacial pace growth) in terms of TV shows to me that it isn't fine.
I don't know what people want. The scoring is fine.
The game is about offense and defense. Just watching easy offense is not entertaining. Having to overcome resistance and still produce offense, is entertaining.
The game lacks interesting personalities. And it lacks great goalies.
But nothing Dryden prescribes addresses these issues.
And I agree that the scoring is fine.
LolStill you keep on watching. If it really bothers you that much, then stop watching. There's a dozen other sports to watch. Like golf or synchronized swimming.
Murray as well.ryan miller is a rake without his equipment on
Ryan Miller slams goaltending equipment criticism: 'I’m inside the rules'
Ya had to be there buddy. It had all the goonery of what you say. (That actually started in 74) But it also had the stars like Orr, Lafleur, Parent, Park, Esposito, Macleash, Perreault, Dionne, not to mention Gretzky and everyone that came in 79.The other thing that strikes me as ironic is if Ken Dryden’s trying to turn back the clock on certain aspects of the game, I think he’ll find that there isn’t going to be much of a consensus on when that golden age should be. For example, he played in the 1970s and that era was garbage for disparity, goonery, lack of professionalism, training etc. and there’s no part of me as a modern fan that wants a return to anything resembling that era.
Save you’re breath......
......the “equipment is so big” die hards will be along soon.
Equipment keeps getting smaller, goalies keep getting better, but it’s always the same tired argument.
Check out the width of the pads, height of the pads even worst check out from the chest up. Todays EQ is huge compared to beak then.The pads and glove are actually pretty comparable in size today to what Dryden wore (They might have been a bit wider back then actually: goalies are restricted to 11 inches in width now). The blocker is actually smaller now: Dryden basically wore a baking tray on his right arm.
Check out the width of the pads, height of the pads even worst check out from the chest up. Todays EQ is huge compared to beak then.
Again please explain to me how wider equipment protects a goalie more then thicker equipment? Yes we would all like to hear your explaination.Goalie equipment is the smallest its been since the mid 90's, the added size with the current equipment is to account for the fact that every player in the NHL can absolutely rip the puck with composite sticks, are you suggesting that we bring the fear factor back into goaltending? With the reduced pant and chest protector size implemented in the past couple of seasons the goalies were getting bruised left right and center. Manufacturers were able to dial it in abit more to offer a protective product but a further reduction would certainly result in serious injuries. Although the height of the pads could be taken down abit.
barley have any height above the knee?I think i can speak from a unique perspective as my gear sizes have changed following nhl spec each time. The only real piece of gear now that people could argue is oversized is the catcher and blocker. the new spec pants are like skinny jeans and honestly I've been hurt in them way more than ever before... As for pads height is fine (you can), you could make an argument about making them and inch thinner but that would make minimal difference.
Lundqvist is also like 6'0"This is Lundqvist before they reduced the pads twice and reduced the pants and chest protectors, viewing hockey from a side angle on tv broadcasts doesn't do goalies any justice.
I dont think Dryden was talking about iffence ir defence. Scoring going up or down. Just about how the goalies cover the net, how they play, how they ate to watch.I don't know what people want. The scoring is fine.
The game is about offense and defense. Just watching easy offense is not entertaining. Having to overcome resistance and still produce offense, is entertaining.
Ken Dryden's nostalgia based diagnosis has it all wrong.
The goalie position has experienced a revolution in equipment and technique in the past 25 years that makes the position barely recognizable from the position he played. I started watching as a kid in the middle of this revolution when the likes of Potvin, Roy, Joseph, Hasek, Belfour and Brodeur were finding their own styles, so it was different then from whatever Dryden imagines is the golden age. But I can appreciate there's a different beauty to the way someone next generation like Carter Hart or Andrei Vasilevsiky plays the position than shrinking the goalie and have them return to when the position was exciting, acrobatic and terrible.
Just watching guys like McDavid, Mackinnon, Matthews and friends dominate NHL scoring, it's up to the shooters now to reinvent their positions, to make the game more beautiful and faster and high skilled. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.