NHL...new rules should open the game up a bit.
 

I have been saying they should do this for years.....the strict calling of holding and the elimination of the two line rule are especially good ideas.

http://www.nhl.com/news/2005/09/234088.html

If we can get them to take down the stupid net, that would also improve my enjoyment!

and have a bunch of guys just skating out there together with no purpose?!??!?!?!

Why not just get a ticket to the ice capades....

Wow, that's pretty drastic. The kinds of stuff they illustrated can be seen on almost every posesion in the NHL. If they really do enforce that strictly, it will completely change the game.

But, a more important question...could they have picked a worse guy to narrate that video?

I doubt it.....he could have been describing how to put up dry wall and nobody would have noticed the diff.

eeeesh...the Net ABOVE the glass at the ends... But that was brought in after the horrible accedent in Columbus where a little girl was killed, so they had to do something.


As for the Rules. Teams with Speed are GOING TO ROCK! 2 line Passes! YES! Tag-up offsides, YES! A Goalies ABILITY not his HUGE Equiptment will make the save, YES! O.T. Shoot-outs, we will see. Goalie 'Zone' behind the net, we will see. Having played the game for years....years ago now, I can't wait to see it!

GO BRUINS- GO SHARKS! :D :snap:

Yes this is going to be great.....I am hoping a new Hockey Superstar will emerge from this ........my money is on Marian Hossa of Atlanta....that guy is fast and has a touch with the puck unmatched among his contemporaries.

WHL hockey up here in the NW has already started and I can tell you that the rule changes(the WHL adopted nearly all of the NHL changes) do have one drawback..............Common courtesy durring a Hockey game is to wait for a stoppage of play before leaving ones seat or returning to ones seat. Before this year that would mean a wait of 30 seconds to as long as maybe 3 minutes......now a wait of 5 minuets is not un-common :eek:

Aside from that I love the new changes :snap:

Hmm, that surprises me. I would have thought the opposite. I would have thought it would lead to more penalty calls and more wide-open scoring, reducing the average time between stopages.

So far the 4 games that have been played by the Portland Winterhawks:

3-0
6-3
5-2
3-4

So, at least with us, it has not really resulted in much more scoring. There has been a little bit more penalty calling.....but the goalie can't freeze the puck anymore except when an opposing player is slamming away at it; defenders can't throw the puck into the stands under threat of 2 minutes; and most importantly of all---the blasted 2 line rule is gone so mid-ice stoppages are all but gone.

Good point on that. Always thought the 2 line rule was dumb. There's already off-sides, why restrict it more than necessary?