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

[Name]

These rules changes aren't going to change the fact that some teams will use systems..... it will just change the systems that they use, and force them to create new ones.....

[PanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Name

These rules changes aren't going to change the fact that some teams will use systems..... it will just change the systems that they use, and force them to create new ones.....

I have yet to see a single team using the trap this year. IT IS DEAD. As you watch a game see how the Nuetral zone is used now for strictly transition, and teams glide through. Watch an old Jersy or Wild Game...they spent half the game in the Nuetral zone. Now if you aren't ready to head back fast, and set up Defense, it's Break-away time for the other guy!

Also on Goalie Equipt- Giggy is having a bit of trouble in Anaheim, but have you seen Luongo in florida? WOW...2 shutouts in 2 games. He is faster with the smaller Equipt.