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Originally Posted by polak
Agree to disagree then cause I cringe when I watch highlights from the 80's and early 90's where it seems like any half decent shot on net is a goal.
I like that goals are hard to come by. It makes them more exciting. If every tic tac toe play or wrister from the circle is a goal, then those plays automatically lose their value in my eyes.
Then again I'll take Soccer over Basketball or Lacrosse any day of the week so I guess I'm probably in the minority on this forum.
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Totally agree, its full of weak wrist shots going and bad angle shots going in, which would get a goalie waived in today's NHL.
Its funny that people keep going back to the 80's as the reference point to the glory days of hockey.
Seriously, watch an 80's game objectively and without nostalgia and you realize that the overall level of hockey was terrible compared to today. Teams now play so much more structured, every line can contribute, the athletes are better conditioned. The game is so much better.
We don't need more goals, if it happens it should happen organically by finding ways to get by an organized defense, not by constantly trying to shift rules in favour of goal scoring.