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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
The Spengler Cup has a ZERO tolerance policy to slashing, and most stick infractions. Honestly at first I was not a fan of it because there were so many penalties in the first game. Yet, the next game there were many fewer calls because the players learned that they couldn't get away with it.
With out slashes skilled players had much more room to dangle and it made for some exciting plays.
I am 100% for the same kind of policy in the NHL. I'm sure the first dozen games will be a boring penalty fest, but after that players will be safer and skilled players will take advantage and make entertaining plays.
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Never going to happen with the old boys club presently running the NHL. In a couple of decades where there are some regime changes I can see some changes for the better but a lot of the dinosaurs running the NHL still long for hockey the way they played it decades ago and it still pains them that they have to hand out suspensions for some of the hits that get punished today.