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Originally Posted by blankall
Changing goalie equipment is a very welcome change. Even a 10% reduction is going to severely effect the abilities of a few goalies (cough cough Luongo).
Like the spin-o-rama move. Although as others have pointed out, they just need to stricter on interference and the puck moving forward.
Mixed thoughts on the helmets. 5 years ago if you were wearing a visor before a fight, it was considered against the "code". Weird how things change.
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I've said this before, yes reducing the equipment will have an impact in the first couple season. Some goalies may be revealed to be useless. But once goalies adapt and younger guys get used to the new sizes, the goals against will drop again.
The majority of the goalies are to skilled. They reduced the equipment size last lock out, and it worked for a bit, but now the great goalies adapted and are putting up better numbers than ever.
The only reason I think this could benefit the NHL is that we will see which goalies are worth their pay check.