What’s your unpopular hockey opinion?

[Goose]

More than any other major sport, winning a championship is a decidedly team accomplishment that individual players should not be praised/criticized for.

On top of that, more than any other major sport, there is a massive element of chance and winning a championship is much more good fortune than it is pure skill.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

The NHL needs to go back to wooden sticks and smaller goalie equipment. Technology is ruining hockey just like golf.

What the HECK are you talking about????

 

[vladdy16]

the talent gap between your average 4th and 1st liners has shrunk significantly (as in the 4th liners are better.)

Composite sticks make scoring easier, any scrub can fire a rocket

 

[Trocity]

Lacrosse

Only in box lacrosse though, field lacrosse is completely different.

It's weird that we are stereotyped as being so polite, yet our national sport and the sport we claim is ours are the only sports that let people beat the absolute shit out of each other bare knuckle.

 

[Machinehead]

Lacrosse

Just indoor lacrosse which is just hockey in the summer.

 

[Machinehead]

John Tavares isn't as elite defensively as everyone think he is

 

[KWP]

I would like one, and preferably two, line brawls per month.

This is just wrong but ... I did LOL - seriously.

 

[KWP]

During the game, the two home club skaters scratched from the lineup game have to sell peanuts - in their uniforms.
(The two work-a-day Joes who don't get to vend the nuts get paid of course.)

 

[KWP]

I laughed a few times in this list.

I puked a few times ...
but might've been the chinese takeout I was eating while reading the preceding pages.

 

[KWP]

The Habs should be relocated to the southern US

But keep the same team name.

 

[KWP]

Agree

Agree

Agree and disagree. Datsyuk is not long removed from the NHL and most of his damage was down after the lockout, but the point still stands.

Agree

Agree however I don't think I've ever seen someone on HF try to assess a player's worth with their body language. It's mainly for talking heads like Skip Bayless.

- No opinion.
- Not sure - but leaning that way.
- No F-ing way!
- W/o a doubt - and thank you for saying so.
- AYFKM
- Possibly.

 

[KWP]

Remove the netting at each end of the rink to force people to keep their heads up instead of down on their phones like it used to be pre-2000. .

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[Machinehead]

A good start but doesn't go far enough my friend ...
I say take down the plexiglass that borders the rink, too.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ

 

[KWP]

Jesus tap-dancing Christ

You're right, I'm gonna delete that comment. Was just a late night joke try til I read the next page.
I hope the little girl's family can find peace someday.

 

[AD Skinner]

But keep the same team name.

The New Orleans Cadiens

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

The Fast and Furious movies are bad. I know, not hockey related, but I downloaded #6 and just had to say it.

 

[Varan]

- No opinion.
- Not sure - but leaning that way.
- No F-ing way!
- W/o a doubt - and thank you for saying so.
- AYFKM
- Possibly.

can you bold which ones you’re talking about haha

 

[LarKing]

The Fast and Furious movies are bad. I know, not hockey related, but I downloaded #6 and just had to say it.

Agreed. I enjoyed the first few but that franchise has been a joke for a while now.

 

[Aladyyn]

If any team in this league managed to hire a good GM and keep him for 10 years, they'd win 5 Cups. The bar is that low.

 

[Andrei79]

Have both teams best scorers wear capes.

I believe it would go lengths in improving the fan experience.

 

[Gurglesons]

Evgeny Artyukhin is the best skater in league history.

 

[Khomutov]

Right now, Nikita Kucherov is a better hockey player than Connor McDavid.

 

[42]

Put goalie equipment on a morbidly obese man and tie him to the goal posts. He'll probably have a league average SV%. No need to dish out hefty goalie contracts. Pay more money to the players who actually skate.

 

[sandysan]

Just indoor lacrosse which is just hockey in the summer.

with more slashing. A LOT more slashing

 

[Leon der Profi]

No national anthem before the hockey game. No need to weave nationalism and militarism into the fabric of a hockey game.

Leave these obsessions to North Korea and such like. Thank you.