I used to be a traditionalist on this issue too, but I would not be against slightly bigger nets. I agree that reducing the padding would be the most ideal, but I think like a bigger ice surface, it may be impossible. They already did reduce it a bit years back, (remember Trevor Kidd complaining? haha) I can't see them doing it again. Plus goalies being different sizes, it might be hard to enforce a black and white rule. Making bigger nets might be the easiest and most fair rule change.
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