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Originally Posted by Joborule
If the nets were made bigger, you could probably address the blocked shots and cycling issue since players would have more of a target to shoot at, thus taking more shots at any point in the zone. Right now you really have to work to get a shot in a good position since you don't have much to shoot at.
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I suspect you'd actually see a greater emphasis on shot blocking. Soccer nets are huge, so the emphasis is on shot prevention. Make the nets sufficiently larger in hockey and you'd probably see teams go from three forwards and two defensemen to two forwards and three defensemen or something like that.
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Originally Posted by Itse
Now, this could of course be a North American feature, but I find it odd that so many "hockey fans" seem to actually be simply fans of their own team, and simply stop watching when their teams season it's over. The team is the real product, not the league.
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I suspect that the NHL exacerbated this when they went to the division-heavy schedule (the one prior to the current system). Why would you care about teams that visit once in three years and that your team might not play in a season?