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Originally Posted by dobbles
You are reinforcing my larger problem. Hockey should be about scoring goals, not preventing goals. That would make for a more exciting game. When I think back to the 80s as a kid (and maybe its just nostalgia), players took chances and sometimes paid the price with a goal against. But they would keep trying because generating offense was far more important. It didn't matter if you gave up a goal because you knew you could score 3 more.
Your example represents an entire decade of hockey that most of us lived through. I'm not sure anyone actually enjoyed the trap era and 30 or 40 or 50 minutes of killing time once someone scored the first goal.
edit: and just to clarify, changing the OT rules does not solve my problem. IMO, the dullness of 3 on 3 that many in the thread are complaining about is just a symptom of the problem I am talking about, and rule changes will have to be implemented to swing the game in that direction. but that's a separate discussion.
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Yeah, the dead puck era sucked.
Maybe more radical adjustments do need to be made - larger nets, larger rinks?