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

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Name

I don't really see how that is all that much different then the previous years, there were many high scoring games in the pre-rule change seasons.....

and as far as not leaving the game or TV, that has always been true in hockey, as far as I'm concerned.... Things have always happened in a matter of seconds in hockey, things have always changed very quickly....

Thas why I love the game.

True enough. I guess the best way to tell the difference would be to watch a tape of New Jersey and Detroit playing each other a couple of years ago and then go see the Sharks play Anaheim now..........

Back in 1998(when the trap was starting to take off in popularity) my local team won the Memorial Cup(North America Junior Hockey Supremecy). Driving back home from the game with my friends we got to talking about how this year, even though they won more games then ever before, was just about the most boring year. The players won using a system instead of a melding of talent....sure they all were quite talented because no system in the World is going to win you a championship of that caliber without it; but it was the system that really won it for them. We fondly recalled better and greater teams in their history and wondered aloud how they could never get out of the Division to play for the championship........the answer came to us all at once...Kamloops(rival city) was using the trap and we finally got by them by playing their game