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reno cool
style and strategy. in the 90's when shitty team's coaches figured out the can level the field by playing a defense minded game, ie trap, they went with that. It's primarily still true today. We are robbed of great offensive hockey because the primary thinking is defensive.
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Saber metrics is big in hockey now, it's defense first.

Speaking of the 80's scoring explosion, what role do you think the WHA merger played? I'm guessing much more than we realize. The WHA was selling offense and Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Quebec were high-scoring teams (Hartford not so much). All of the euro players who came from defunct teams added even more scoring.
 
I'll tell you who is amazing though. Scotty Bowman. I heard an extended interview with him while driving home. He was asked for his thoughts on the Hall of Fame inductees one by one. Really insightful. Some he was involved in drafting, most he had coached, but obviously he knows all of their careers.

He speaks crisply, eloquently and interestingly.

I'm not going to say I hope I can speak that well when I'm 82. I wish I spoke half that well now.
 
Michal Neuvirth
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Nov. 10, 2015, 10:44 a.m.
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Neuvirth will make his fourth straight start.

Neuvirth stopped all 28 shots that he faced in the Flyers 3-0 shutout win over the Jets on Saturday. Neuvirth now leads the NHL with three shutouts. He has three wins, three shutouts, not bad. Neuvirth comes into play with a 1.81 GAA and .945 SV% in eight outings and draws a strong matchup tonight. The Avalanche have lost four of five, but have averaged 3.00 goals per game over that span.

Sam Carchidi

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Patrick Roy has an idea on how to increase scoring and I think I like it - reduce the size of the goalposts. It wouldn't increase the outside dimensions of the net, yet it would make a lot of shots deflect into the net instead of bouncing right back.

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this years games that I've watched are suckier than the early games of previous seasons.
Roy? goal posts? why is everybody involved in big $ sports a focking idiot?
Can't they find somebody responsible for promoting the flow and beauty of the game. There needs to be a position of Flowmeister General?
 
That's kind of funny what Roy is saying. He is talking about increasing the size of the nets - plain and simple - same as anyone else - but he's attempting an end-around with the wording that might flummox some of the dopier detractors.

"Oh the outside dimension stays the same. By gawd that addresses all my concerns and I am appeased."


:ahawut:
 
Rogatien Vachon
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Devan Dubnyk
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You don't have to sell me. There is no question. The argument that bigger nets would mean having to scrap the record book is ludicrous. It is the cop-out of ridiculous, oldballs, afraid-of-change-no-matter-what, simpleton poops. If the record book has stayed valid through all the equipment changes up till now, why would one more be any different.

Just go ahead and make the goal bigger. Until it brings goals per game from 5.5 to, oh, say, 7. Hell it was almost 8 in the mid-80's.

Make it possible to score on a slapshot from the wing. People used to do that: score on a slapshot from the wing.

I ain't kidding neither.
 
Mudcat
Make it possible to score on a slapshot from the wing. People used to do that: score on a slapshot from the wing.

I ain't kidding neither.
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That's the hockey I remember watching growing up. The long-distance goals were always dramatic.


(I wasn't born when that goal was scored. Just an example. Don't ride me. :boo:)
 
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