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Originally Posted by gunnner
I always wondered what would hockey look like with the redline removed for icing and offsides removed. Just a bunch of cherry picking? more or less hitting? Oilers even worse?
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Teams would likely score a lot more on the powerplay without the blue line. I don't have a lot of issues with cherry picking because there are consequences for losing possession of the puck with a forward up ice so that evens out.
Removing the salary cap would pretty well be the end of the Jets, Senators, and even maybe Flames and things would go back to teams like the Rangers simply buying teams as they already have the advantage of a lot of players wanting to play in that market. I'm sure teams with infinite money resources like the Hawks and Kings who have recently circumvented the salary cap would love it to be abolished.
This is simply not a well thought out piece written by someone that likely has never played the game or been around it all his life.