06-04-2013, 03:13 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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NHLPA votes to grandfather in visors
Per multiple sources on twitter
RT @DarrenDreger: Visors will be grandfathered in. #Hybrid icing tested in NHL preseason. Shallower nets to be used next season. All subject to board approval
Last edited by sureLoss; 06-04-2013 at 03:15 PM.
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06-04-2013, 03:14 PM
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How will this affect fighting and instigators?
What do they do in other leagues such as the AHL?
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06-04-2013, 03:16 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sureLoss
Per multiple sources on twitter
RT @DarrenDreger: Visors will be grandfathered in. #Hybrid icing tested in NHL preseason. Shallower nets to be used next season. All subject to board approval
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What is the point of this?
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06-04-2013, 03:18 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
What is the point of this?
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pretty obvious, it makes more room behind the net.
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06-04-2013, 03:18 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
What is the point of this?
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More room for play making behind them.
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06-04-2013, 03:19 PM
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Even if they grandfather in the visors, it will take like 15 years before we see the last of the visor-less players.
As far as shallower nets, I believe it will make more space behind the net, and also less pucks to be trapped on the netting?
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06-04-2013, 03:21 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
More room for play making behind them.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by moncton golden flames
pretty obvious, it makes more room behind the net.
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Thanks
I have a memory them trying to increase/decrease the space behind the net before. Is that correct?
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06-04-2013, 03:22 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Better late than never.
Next up after hybrid no-touch icing: hard capped elbow pads.
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06-04-2013, 03:23 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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can somebody explain what "to grandfather in" means? Mandatory for everybody? Mandatory for players entering the league? I'm confused 
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06-04-2013, 03:24 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by devo22
can somebody explain what "to grandfather in" means? Mandatory for everybody? Mandatory for players entering the league? I'm confused |
Just like helmets, if you didn't wear one before the rule, you don't have to wear one now. If you come into the league post rule change you wear one.
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06-04-2013, 03:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Just like helmets, if you didn't wear one before the rule, you don't have to wear one now. If you come into the league post rule change you wear one.
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Thanks! I love English, but using grandfather as a verb seems like a weird idea 
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06-04-2013, 03:26 PM
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Franchise Player
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Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger 58s Players who have played 26 or more NHL regular season or playoff games will not have to wear a visor under grandfather agreement.
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06-04-2013, 03:26 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by devo22
can somebody explain what "to grandfather in" means? Mandatory for everybody? Mandatory for players entering the league? I'm confused |
Yes mandatory for new players. Existing players have the choice. Good rule IMO as I feel you have to have a slight mental disability to conclude that a visor hinders more than it helps. Especially with the advanced optics involved in them now. Also add in that anyone Comin in has had to use at least a visor up until the NHL
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06-04-2013, 03:28 PM
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Good for the league IMO. what a difference it could have made in a few players careers.
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06-04-2013, 03:31 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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Also significant is the recommendation that all 4 minute high sticking penalties will get a mandatory video review.
May lead to other penalty calls being reviewable down the road.
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06-04-2013, 03:33 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Temporary_User
How will this affect fighting and instigators?
What do they do in other leagues such as the AHL?
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@reporterchris: The penalty for starting a fight with a visor on will be changed, per Colin Campbell.
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06-04-2013, 03:54 PM
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Franchise Player
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That's a pretty good chunk of players:
John Shannon@JSportsnet1m
Can confirm that in excess of 80% of players polled by the NHLPA agreed with "grandfathering" visors.
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06-04-2013, 03:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sureLoss
Also significant is the recommendation that all 4 minute high sticking penalties will get a mandatory video review.
May lead to other penalty calls being reviewable down the road.
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Would love to see this rule changed too (4 minutes high sticking penalty). If you get high sticked and you are not wearing a visor, where wearing a visor would have prevented you from being cut, the penalty is only 2 minutes and not 4. NHLPA would never sign off on this though.
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06-04-2013, 04:09 PM
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I believe in the Pony Power
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sureLoss
@reporterchris: The penalty for starting a fight with a visor on will be changed, per Colin Campbell.
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Fighting will be gone within the decade. This is a step in that direction. One that I'm all for.
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06-04-2013, 04:13 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Typical generational discrimination.
Grandfathers have a difficult enough time keeping up in today's NHL. But now the remaining baby boomers in the players ranks are expected to have the moxie to take puck and sticks in the face, while those young wimpy Generation Y players get the protection of plastic shields.
Sigh, kids today. They just don't have the gumption to spit out some teeth or blink out an eyeball and then finish their shift . . .
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