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Originally Posted by flip
Care to elaborate?
I can only assume you are referring to the "new" NHL style of play but I'd still like to hear specifically what you mean.
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That is exactly it. Some of the rules changes are good for the game such as taking out the redline. We hate the shootouts, what the hell is an overtime loss and why does a team get a point for it? Since when is hooking when you tap your stick blade on a players glove? The games have turned into parades to the penalty boxes. I don't want to see 85 power plays a game. Thats not hockey.
We look at what went on in the playoffs last year and want to puke. First you have Colin Campbell flat out stating that there are different rules for different players and team, and when challenged about it on HNIC he tried to defend it. Where is the integrity in that? We had Carcillo and Camallari do the same thing (punch someone in the head after a face off) on the same night and one guy gets suspended and the other doesn't? Why does the league go against their own rule and not suspend Malkin in the finals? The blatant favouritism that the Penguins get is disgusting and unparalleled, Mario Lemiuex and Wayne Gretzgy never got the favourtism Cindy and Frankenstein now enjoy. How is it the league allowed that team to tank for so long, but when Quebec was doing it they changed the rules and implemented a lottery into the draft.
Why the hell are there hockey teams in the sun belt? Nobody cares down there, the only people that do are those that moved from the north and those people follow their home town teams. Teams should never have been moved out of canada.
To sum it up the NHL has become Disneys Stars on ice, if I wanted to watch that I would go get a DVD of Kristi Yamaguchi or buy tickets for Shrek on ice. In my lifetime, hockey was never better then the 1980's you had the Oilers playing finesse hockey, the Flyers played grinding rough hockey, the Flames were a great mix of the two, the Habs had multiple players that would drop the gloves. You had Bob Probert, Dave Brown, Tie Domi, Toney Twist, Chris Nilan etc. You had big hits, defensemen could actually touch a forward and not get called for a penalty. Goalies pads were normal sizes . . .
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