tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post116538743094522668..comments2024-01-06T07:18:43.593-08:00Comments on The Battle of California: Ramble post: If I were commish...James Mirtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11221488913251638181noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165560435600186272006-12-07T22:47:00.000-08:002006-12-07T22:47:00.000-08:00RC, I'm not really serious about #1, but I do enjo...RC, I'm not really serious about #1, but I do enjoy it when a team puts scoring on its agenda. Good defenses are cool, but (for example) Dallas scored against SJ in the first five minutes (?) last game and sat on that for 55 minutes. I might have liked it better had they tried for a second goal.<BR/><BR/>Doogie guessed it, I suppose. The only two I'd really do are #2 and #3. <BR/><BR/>The rest was just food for thought.Earl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165550950340945502006-12-07T20:09:00.000-08:002006-12-07T20:09:00.000-08:00Earl, you can't be serious! In proposal # 1 - rank...Earl, you can't be serious! In proposal # 1 - ranking by goals, all the 8th seeded playoff teams would knock off the 1st place teams cause they play better defense.<BR/><BR/>I'm starting to wonder that part of what is wrong with the game might be hockey fans appreciation of it in general.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I'm lone oddball who enjoys watching a good defense as much as an offense.<BR/><BR/>If football were to eliminate sacking the quarterback, there would be more touchdowns.<BR/><BR/>This is where hockey thinking is at right now.<BR/><BR/>It has to stop changing and revert to what worked before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165463207384059722006-12-06T19:46:00.000-08:002006-12-06T19:46:00.000-08:00I think fighting would help in that sense consider...I think fighting would help in that sense considering the enforcers will have a role and they're the ones who know how to take care of themselves. They won't be the ones accidentally hitting someone at the end of a bad shift or some other shite.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe I'm completely missing the point.Jordihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07150308503869826414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165447295478597702006-12-06T15:21:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:21:00.000-08:00I find it a bit scary that people only want to see...<I>I find it a bit scary that people only want to see fighting after someone's hurt. </I><BR/><BR/>Oh, that's not really my position. But I do think we will see less disrespectful injury hits if there is a valid threat of repercussion and self-enforcement.<BR/><BR/>I want fights instead of injuries.Earl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165447215012999462006-12-06T15:20:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:20:00.000-08:00good comments, e.this has got to be the 8th save-t...good comments, e.<BR/><BR/><I>this has got to be the 8th save-the-nhl post i've seen this week.</I><BR/><BR/>Ah, but mine's only half-serious.<BR/><BR/><I>if i might ask, what exactly is wrong with the nhl? is the game too boring? is it losing its established audience? does it need to gain a new audience?</I><BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if it's a matter of established vs. new audience, it's really a question of any audience. Attendance is low, and TV is not drawing viewers (primarily new ones, but it is losing steam from last year as well). Since the post-lockout NHL has become more-dollar-oriented than ever, this "failure to captivate" is more troubling than ever.<BR/><BR/>My personal complaint? On-ice product is turning stale, especially 5-on-5. As much as the game has "changed", the one-goal lead still reigns. Thus suggestion #1.<BR/><BR/>Don't get me wrong; I watched plenty of hockey pre-lockout and I watch plenty of hockey today. But the NHL's not going to survive just on my meager dollar. <BR/><BR/>Besides, it was a slow news day. :)Earl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165446881931383552006-12-06T15:14:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:14:00.000-08:00Maybe they could market the visor like a mini coop...Maybe they could market the visor like a mini cooper - decorate it crazy like a goalie mask? They'll want one of those babies afterwards. Especially the one with pink hearts.<BR/><BR/>And fighting! Fighting! I find it a bit scary that people only want to see fighting after someone's hurt.Jordihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07150308503869826414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165446343309639762006-12-06T15:05:00.000-08:002006-12-06T15:05:00.000-08:00wow, hockey fans are really an anxious bunch these...wow, hockey fans are really an anxious bunch these days. this has got to be the 8th save-the-nhl post i've seen this week.<BR/><BR/>if i might ask, what exactly is wrong with the nhl? is the game too boring? is it losing its established audience? does it need to gain a new audience? it seems to me that more time is spent proposing solutions than defining the problem, which makes it difficult to evaluate the suggestions. for example, the more i read, the more i think that the latter two problems have mutually exclusive solutions- either the game must play to its core audience and give up the attempt to attract new fans, or it must risk changes that will alienate the base and but may attract different kinds of audience. but i don't think there's any change that can do both. so the question isn't so much what should be done, but what we want the game to be that it isn't now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165442473165727372006-12-06T14:01:00.000-08:002006-12-06T14:01:00.000-08:00i'd like to see them create an illegal defense rul...i'd like to see them create an illegal defense rule, similar to what the NBA used to have. The principal of the rule would be that when teams are at even strength, they are required to aggressively pursue the puck while the opponent has posession. In other words, this would eliminate the concept of the neutral zone "trap", in which a team can sit back and wait for the opponent to make a mistake. Obviously this would be a subjective rule that the officials would be responsible for monitoring (all four of them could call it), but i think it's usually pretty obviously when a team is deploying a trap-like defense and not forechecking in any real way. <BR/><BR/>The penalties:<BR/><BR/>- first two offenses, faceoff in your defensive zone<BR/>- third offense and greater, 2 minute delay of game penalty<BR/>- less than 2 minutes remaining in game: penalty shot<BR/><BR/>I think this could have a profound impact on the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165438815096170572006-12-06T13:00:00.000-08:002006-12-06T13:00:00.000-08:00I stand totally behind 3, and could get behind 2 i...I stand totally behind 3, and could get behind 2 if need be (I still wonder if visors are the slippery slope towards full face masks, at which point, why even bother?). I actually wrote a rambly of my own on the subject of 3 and RC's post on my own site, which basically said the same thing.Doogie2Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14703778878103452453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165426036425220052006-12-06T09:27:00.000-08:002006-12-06T09:27:00.000-08:00As far out as these are, only the first one made m...As far out as these are, only the first one made me squirm. I like it!Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13959870439313456169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165415328250143602006-12-06T06:28:00.000-08:002006-12-06T06:28:00.000-08:00I was drinking when I hit "publish", but it doesn'...I was drinking when I hit "publish", but it doesn't really count as a drinky post. A lot of it was written sober, I just needed some liquid courage before actually posting it.<BR/><BR/>Ramble post = drinky post with less drinkingEarl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-1165388226140872812006-12-05T22:57:00.000-08:002006-12-05T22:57:00.000-08:00Is this a drinky post? It seems like a drinky pos...Is this a drinky post? It seems like a drinky post<BR/><BR/>More when I'm not dead to the world.Tapeleghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924479483663736006noreply@blogger.com