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

PanTheMan · 10-02-2005, 10:05 PM

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

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

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!

sleepyjeff · 10-02-2005, 11:33 PM

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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!

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

Aside from that I love the new changes

Ghoulish Delight · 10-03-2005, 08:06 AM

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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.

sleepyjeff · 10-03-2005, 08:34 AM

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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.

Ghoulish Delight · 10-03-2005, 08:42 AM

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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?