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

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

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

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.