The Real Timo
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HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024-2025 season
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nhlfan9191
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That fight was depressing. Just a reminder father time is unbeaten. Tyson was washed up 25 years ago.
I agree. Pretty sure I even just read an article that said it's a 'reminder father time is unbeaten' in its second sentence as well!
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Severe lack of top Canadian goalies also. Back then Carey Price, Brodeur, Luongo and Fleury were good goalie in league
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Grate n Colorful Oz
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Many need to read this and stop spreading the tired and simplistic GoALieS aRE BaD noW
Grate n Colorful Oz
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I highly doubt it. Offense sells. NHL is following the NBA trend of creating more offense with rule changes.
It might sells, but coaches do not like seeing 4-6 goals against every night.
Grate n Colorful Oz
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The league will change rules that nix strategies meant to limit offense. Let's say the 1-3-1 suddenly gets adopted by many and causing a drop in production, it is highly likely that the league would respond by tweaking a component that hinders that strategy.
The future is all about skills and offense.
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Deebs
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And look how terrible basketball has become. BBall, imo, has been trash for the past 15ish years.
I understand the idea of selling offense, it just sucks when it comes from ruining the integrity of the game.
Grate n Colorful Oz
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Yeah, I'm not saying I agree with it, but it also makes sense in terms of health, injuries, CTEs and protecting their major financial investment in players.
They are profit driven, so how much physicality will remain in the future will be determined in how far they can push the envelope in limiting physicality versus its impact on the popularity of the sport.
RabbleMasterBlaster
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The lower quality of players on teams seems to have happened a lot faster than I thought it would. Half the league is very bad. Like competing for basement bad. I'm a little surprised. Not sure what's causing that immense divide so soon.
Grate n Colorful Oz
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Smaller goalie equipment creates more goals and it skews the view of the quality of players. The average error rate of players might've gone up a bit because of the small expansion, but the smaller G equipment definitely sets players up to fail more often even though they might not commit more errors on average.
Like anything else, what we see is multifactorial. Expansion, smaller goalie equipment, stricker enforcement of the slashing rule, strategies evolving, culture change. The talent dilution is a small fraction of the whole answer and nothing compared to the dilutions of the past, going from 6 to 12, 12 to 18, 18 to 23 and 23 to 28. It's 30 to 32. It's the lowest fraction of dilution in the history of NHL expansions. In no way is it the main cause of what we see.
