NHL rule changes

[Imran Siddiqui]

if they pay all that money for an inferior product.

How is removing fighting making the NHL an 'inferior product'? Fighting is a distraction from the actual game. Removing it would make it a superior product.

We've been told over and over again, that Americans don't like ties.

Even though our most popular sport, American football, has ties?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

if they pay all that money for an inferior product.

How is removing fighting making the NHL an 'inferior product'? Fighting is a distraction from the actual game. Removing it would make it a superior product.

We've been told over and over again, that Americans don't like ties.

Even though our most popular sport, American football, has ties?

While this is true, how many ties have there been in the last 20 years? Maybe 4?

The way football is scored makes ties a rare occurence. Which actually makes them exciting to watch.

After further review, there have been 9 ties in the NFL in the last 20 years.

ACK!

[Ben Kenobi]

How is removing fighting making the NHL an 'inferior product'? Fighting is a distraction from the actual game. Removing it would make it a superior product.

In your eyes, perhaps, but you have to look at the overall market.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
In your eyes, perhaps, but you have to look at the overall market.

I don't see many Canadians leaving the sport because they've banned fighting. Maybe Don Cherry, but he's a wacko anyway.

Tubs, true, but when it does happen you get all this outrage that the game ended in a tie! It's accepted as part of the game.

[Ben Kenobi]

Just look at what happened at the all star game.

And so far the folks who want fighting seem to outnumber you 2:1

[Imran Siddiqui]

On this thread perhaps... but the fanbase is much larger.

Just look at what happened at the all star game.

That was because they decided to do it in the middle of the game. They changed the rules after the game started. Totally different.

[asleepathewheel]

Like the changes

So happy they didn't increase playoff teams to 20. THAT would have been ridiculous

[Asher]

Fighting is part of hockey. If you don't like it, form your own sissy league full of American players who don't want to mess up their pretty little faces.

Let the real men play hockey as it was intended.

[Guynemer]

Bull.

To stop a hockey game to have a fight is much like having a game of Civ suddenly and inexplicably interrupted by a level of Half-Life, where the outcome has no bearing whatsoever on the game of Civ.

[Ben Kenobi]

Wow, you think a hockey game is turn based?

[Guynemer]

Well, with all the clutching and grabbing and scrums and fights, it may as well be.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hey, here's the draft order. Vancouver did very well.

1. Pittsburgh

2. Anaheim

3. Carolina

4. Minnesota

5. Montreal

6. Columbus

7. Chicago

8. Atlanta

9. Ottawa

10. Vancouver

11. Los Angeles

12. San Jose

13. Buffalo

14. Washington

15. New York Islanders

16. New York Rangers

17. Phoenix

18. Nashville

19. Detroit

20. Philadelphia

21. Toronto

22. Boston

23. New Jersey

24. St. Louis

25. Edmonton

26. Calgary

27. Colorado

28. Dallas

29. Florida

30. Tampa Bay

[Guynemer]

I'm glad Crosby isn't going to the Rangers. The conspiracy chatter would have wrecked the NHL before it got back off the ground.

Poor Florida. Seriously, look at the bottom three--no way on God's green Earth should there even be hockey teams in those places.

[Ben Kenobi]

Pittsburgh is weird though, them getting Mario and now Crosby.

[Guynemer]

Well it's not a big market, and as much as I love Mario, he doesn't have much left in the tank.