NHL = New Hockey Layout?

[c9]

I finally found a copy of the NHL rule changes for 2005-2006. I have no idea how many (if any?) hockey fans are reading this, but it sounds like it really could change things a lot. One example: no more ties. Ever.


Let's go Senators!

yes, I'm a sick sick man.

Comments

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Funny. When I click on the tag for this post I get this error:

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Sorry, one or more specified tags do not exist.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I think it's a known bug with tags that have more than one word. I have kludged my way around it.

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it seems like they're trying to regulate away the league's problems. It concerns me, but we'll see how it goes.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Well, since spending fifteen years alternately pretending the problems didn't exist, and pretending to improve the enforcement of existing rules, this is a welcome change of tactics for me.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Although I admit that I don't like removing ties. That bugs me.

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

Me too - LOL, as a kid we were always taught that ties were great since we're all winners - hee hee.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's no way to win a debate about the money. You either support the billionaire owners or the millionaire players... nobody seems to support the poor fans! :)

Hopefully things will change in some way, so we can see whether the rule changes have an effect.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. How does "no ties" improve the game? That's one of the things I liked about NHL hockey that differentiated it from other competitive sports. There was a way for a game to end with out a decisive somewhat forced (like in baseball) winner. It's good for the fans to have some angst once in a while.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm not a fan of shootouts at all, because all they prove is that one person can sometimes beat a goalie. Hockey is about a team. Mostly it's leftover bitterness from the Canada Cup (maybe it was called World Cup of Hockey by that point?) when Canada lost to Sweden in a shootout. 1994 or so.

[thespos]

I am looking forward to going to a Coyotes game, but I really don't like the no-tie thing.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

Sport illiterate here. I had to think about your example for a while. I was pretty sure that ties weren't a part of the hockey uniform.

I'm all for hockey failing completely. The traffic when the Sens have a home game is impossible.