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Originally Posted by Textcritic
How many more "nice" goals (whatever those are) will be scored on very slightly larger nets?
I maintain that an artificial increase in scoring will not make the game any more exciting. Any increase achieved by larger nets is almost certain to be marginal, and will not improve in any way the quality of play, which is what much more directly corresponds to the excitement of the game.
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Totally agree with you, I think the more goals = more excitement argument is ridiculous. The thing that makes great games is the tension and competitiveness between the two teams in trying to create goals.
I will also add that goals need to be hard to come by to mean something. Two teams trading goals easily takes the thrill out of what a goal is.
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-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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