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Originally Posted by MarkGio

You're absolutely right. Back in the day, a player would get a break away and it would be a 70/30 chance of beating a flopping goalie. Nowadays its the opposite, and most goalies just butterfly and scorpion to beat a breakaway. Its the same saves every time. Back in Ranford's day, he would do some weird karate kick that wouldn't work half the time, but when it did, my goodness was it cool to see. I've seen ever single lame butterfly save, and that's all we can expect going forward.

And how are most goals these days? Deflections. How exciting is a deflection? Sometimes I don't even know a player scored until the buzzer goes off and I'm more confused than anything. I'm like..."Uh, sweet, I think we scored". But in the old days a player would dangle before shooting a clean goal, which gave me some anticipation that a goal might happen, and then YEAH!!!

And how exciting is a deflection save. The goalie barely knows they saved it? They just butterfly and hope for the best. And if they save it, there's so many players surrounding the goalie that I didn't even catch the second and third rebound goals. Just a bunch of bodies in a huddle whacking their stikcs. So even if the goal scoring increases, its not as exciting as break-aways, flopping goalie saves, and clean slappers or wristers. Increasing the goal scoring in today's hockey is just more deflections, congestion in front, poorer butterfly saves, and more crowded net presence and confusion.

Agreed on all points. I won't drag us any further off topic and will just say that if we did have a more exciting game, then it would be easier to stay excited about a team and not be a fair weather fan.