Someone else mentioned it to but I think the lack of physicality and big hits makes the game kind of boring now. I obviously understand why it was changed but its less entertaining. We don't need staged fighting but just big hits like watching Regher light up Hemsky or Phanuef and Sarich etc. with out a automatic penalty or having to fight after every single big hit. You couldnt make a Rock Em Sock Em tape with a half season now probably.
Basketball and soccer are much more entrenched with other cultures and ethnic groups as well. I don't know that people are that interested in another low contact sport played primarily by white men, especially zoomers. There used to be much more passion, line brawls etc. It was kind of a savage sport but that's kind of what made it different. Why watch soccer on skates with all the same BS penalties and diving when you could watch soccer with 1000s more players and talent and teams and tournaments to follow.
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