rocky hockey said:
I'm as die hard of a fan as any of you , and at 37 yrs old i played hockey before most of you were born, But i to am starting to get a little perturbed at the things the NHL is doing lately.
Well I am in my forties, so you should not generalize who posts on this board.
it seems the league blamed there brush with a near league wide demise on just about everything except the real problems at hand. EXPANSION is what ruined the game in the 1st place, along with greed.
Expansion has nothing to do with any of the league's problems.
so many new teams no new talent
You really should do a little thinking before your next post. With the influx of European talent, there was a gigantic increase of talent that probably only equates in any other sport to the inlfux of black baseball players post-Robinson (not immediately, but over time).
how can franchises with no monetary capital or tradition compete in a league with teams who have been around for decades.
Man oh man. What are you talking about? Many of the new franchises were several times more capilized than the older teams. Most of trhe nerw boys could buy and sell the owners of the older teams several times over.
Ill tell you how- clutch & grab etc., center ice trap.
Unrelated. A cult of overcoaching took over the NHL. Plain and simple. It has zip to do with expansion, franchise capitalization, etc.
The cold hard truth is that the NHL was a much better product in the 70's and 80's and maybe even the early 90's then it will ever be again.
The NHL as a whole let this thing get away from them gradually for 10 or 15 years and now, they are trying to right the entire ship in 3 months, it doesn't work that way and i do believe more of us old time hockey fans will alienate ourselves from the game more in the future, and you younger fans will have never gotten to see the game as it was meant to play.
Well, to a guy my age you are a younger fan. Your post reflects it too. At age 37, you were a baby in the 70's.
Won't be long before they ask goalies to play in a jock strap, skates, and a yellow fruit of the loom undershirts