TheDawnOfANewTage
Dahlin, it’ll all be fine
- Dec 17, 2018
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15 year old logic
A player who just plants himself in front of the net to just to act as a deflector or a screen doesn't seem like a problem to me.I think the idea would be that he’s using his stick for leverage or to tie up the defender to make himself immovable, and offering his lower body as a target for deflections.
I’m not sure how much this really happens in game scenarios, but it’s a plausible way to score some goals.
Added Jarry:
“there are already so many different ways to score on me, bouncing it off another guy? that’s bullshit, come at me like a man and shoot high glove side…one on one”
A player who just plants himself in front of the net to just to act as a deflector or a screen doesn't seem like a problem to me.
If the league wanted to put a stop to that, maybe allow interference by the defending team to move said player without having to worry about getting penalized. Or make the crease bigger and make it a no fly zone for attacking players.
I don't think we're there yet.A bigger crease would probably be a solution — perhaps a return to the old semicircle, to keep attackers off the posts. Hopefully it wouldn’t come to that. It would only be necessary if players really stopped making hockey plays with their sticks.