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Originally Posted by Wolven
If you tried to turn hockey into ... tennis, then you would fundamentally change the game. However, turning contact hockey into non-contact hockey leaves the game fundamentally the same. Also, most high level non-contact hockey stills allow a fair amount of physical contact. You can still clear guys from in front of the net, you can still scrum/pin players against the boards, you can still rub someone out in a footrace along the boards.
The only difference is that you take out the jaw dropping body checks where one player tries to run through another player in order to bring him to a crashing halt.
Yes, the game would be slightly different but I doubt most peole would really notice the change after a few years.
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Sorry, it doesn't. Watch a shinny game with high level players, it's not the same game at all.