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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
Personally I think all these calls to decrease the size of equipment in order to increase scoring is missing the point. The point is to have a more enjoyable and entertaining product to watch. Yes many times goals are exciting, but only focusing on the number of goals is misleading in the same way only looking at corsi can miss a lot of what happens in a game.
Will decreasing equipment size (or increasing net size) increase goals? Probably. Will it make the game more entertaining? I doubt it. I think it will only increase the number of garbage goals, further rewarding teams who play boring systems and less skilled players who bang the puck around, instead of helping the skilled players make fast and exciting plays.
I would say that the solution lies in the direction of making the reffing better. The skilled players in the game take so much abuse with no consequence. We let teams employ strategies to beat skilled players down to the level of plugs so they can be beaten with boring systems. With just the slashing, how many skilled players end up playing with bruised and broken hands. We can see this abuse taking its toll in the skilled player's career arcs, fizzling out early, prematurely becoming a shadow of former skill and speed.
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Couldn't agree more!
And as I've said before, sure there can be tweaks to goalie equipment, then enforce the rules and make sure that guys aren't wearing stuff that's two sizes too big for their frame. But really, what are we trying to do to the game here? Make it more exciting or have more goals for the sake of more goals?