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Originally Posted by MattyC
I think expanding the width of the rink would do wonders for the game. Not to Olympic size, but somewhere in-between.
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Based on the international hockey played on Olympic surfaces, this actually makes playing defense easier. I'm not sure if it's the slightly extra time defenses have to get back and defend if a player is going out wide, or just that they don;t even bother trying to cover the wide ice and just collapse, but it doesn't seem to work.
I like the idea of 4 on 4, but unless they expand by enough teams to virtually guarantee no job loss, this won't happen.
So, the solution is to get the goalies back into 80's goalie gear, or failing that, slightly smaller equipment and make the nets bigger. Make it so guys with good shots, like Wendel Clark and Mark Messier back in the day, can skate down the wing and actually have room to fire a laser over the goalies shoulder or into a corner of the net that they can actually see.