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Lot of discussion of the potential rule changes - "ringette" line, eliminating the trapezoid (this has to be gone, right?), re-instating the red line, hybrid icing, 3 on 3 OT (please note NHL, everything Babcock says is gospel)...
One rule I want to see is, all penalties are majors. If you get a 2 minute penalty, it does not end when a goal is scored. You get the full 2 minutes. If the PP team scores 3 times, well, quit taking penalties then. I like this partially because it would increase scoring, but it also greatly increases the value of defensively responsible players. The value of "PK specialists" would be much higher. It's an important skill that SHOULD be valued highly. That said the value of this change requires that refs not be assholes and suddenly stop calling anything because "the stakes are too high, it could change the game". Referees fuck everything up.
More realistically though, get rid of that fucking "over the glass" delay of game penalty. Stupidest thing in the game besides the trapezoid.
now's the time of the year where i actually get involved in this thread.
so howbout them Rangers?
Yeah hold on I missed the part where he said Pittsburgh was going to take 1st and NYR would drop to "2nd or 3rd". Holy fail, Batman. Initial suspicions confirmed.
... though what do you expect from a guy with a Bruins logo (trollface.jpg)
So you never watch them and apparently don't understand how the NHL rankings work but you're coming to a conclusion that they'll drop out of first owing to their playing style which you never watch? I'm saying Pittsburgh overtakes them because of who's streaking at the right time but I don't think the NYR playing style is flawed. If you play a loose game you'll be exposed in the postseason.
Besides, the Rangers have to dive and block shots if only to protect Henrik Lundqvist's swedish model face. How else will he make a living post-hockey?
I would have thought the implication that the only reason that the NYR block shots is to protect their pretty boy goaltender would have given the impression that I was joking.
For the sake of clarity, I was joking.
He's still listed as day to day, but yes, that is a misleading classification. The point, though, is that a lot of people get foot injuries from blocking shots. I took a shot off the laces in December, it hurt to wear dress shoes (or skates obviously) for a month. And that was amateur league, imagine an NHL slapshot. It's not an unusal injury. Consequently it is not somehow a sign that the Rangers are doing something wrong that will lead to their downfall by blocking a bunch of shots.
That said, it DOES overstate the value of certain players. Dan Girardi has gone from being underrated before this year to being massively overrated. Shots blocked is not as useful a stat as shots blocked per shots taken when player on-ice. Girardi is fine in that category but nowhere near the best in the league. If you block 50 shots because they took 200 while you were on the ice that just means you suck at driving puck possession.
