I saw this photo and thought of your post.
This was this GWG in the first game of the 1930 Stanley Cup Finals. Albert Leduc had just gone around Eddie Shore to score on Tiny Thompson.
Look at how much the puck "punches" the net out compared to today! There was a lot of slack in that twine.
Noteworthy that Art Ross, the inventor, was on the bench coaching the Bruins during this game.
Also, re this, my guess on why the design was abandoned slack wise was probably safety related. In the 1974 NYR-PHI Game 7 that was posted a few weeks back, Park somehow got his skate stuck in the mesh, which probably would be a tangle/tripping hazard if it had as much slack in it as in the pic above.I saw this photo and thought of your post.
This was this GWG in the first game of the 1930 Stanley Cup Finals. Albert Leduc had just gone around Eddie Shore to score on Tiny Thompson.
Look at how much the puck "punches" the net out compared to today! There was a lot of slack in that twine.
Noteworthy that Art Ross, the inventor, was on the bench coaching the Bruins during this game.