Replace modern pads with the very modest pads of the 70's. The league has created over protected missiles that enable players to cause catastrophic injuries without feeling a thing. This is extremely unpopular because more is always better....right?
What’s your unpopular hockey opinion?
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Machinehead
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This is more of an HF opinion than a hockey opinion, but attacking somebody's team because you disagree with them is basically an ad hominem and signals that you have no argument.
"Sorry, but player X sucks."
"Dude, the Rangers suck!!"
Yeah, the Rangers have sucked for 25 years. I still have more opinions than brain cells.
"Sorry, but player X sucks."
"Dude, the Rangers suck!!"
Yeah, the Rangers have sucked for 25 years. I still have more opinions than brain cells.
Leksand
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Aladyyn
they praying for the death of a rockstar
BlueMed
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Yeah, Roman Josi is a top 5 defenseman in the league. I would take him over Karlsson or Burns any day.
Aladyyn
they praying for the death of a rockstar
Josi convincing people he's good defensively is a magic trick that puts Houdini to shame.
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Any opinions based on making hockey any more like soccer are trash
Brownies
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I root for Montreal, but when a fellow Habs fan gets stuck in an argument and has to brag about how many more Stanley Cups we have won.... Please ! STOP!
TheDawnOfANewTage
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I think we have a blind nostalgia for the past sometimes. I think hockey jerseys are a good example.
..why exactly is the Blackhawks jersey so good? Taste is a subjective thing, but when I try to be as objective as possible I look at it and I just.. I just don't personally like it. And if you do that's fine, but it's weird to me that overall and in general some people like ALL old jerseys more- were they really better, or are you just kinda glorifying the past? There were some good ones and bad ones in the past, just like now.
You'll see it about eras, too. Hockey is great now, but people always pine for the '80s, '90s, '00s, and forget about all the problems.
..why exactly is the Blackhawks jersey so good? Taste is a subjective thing, but when I try to be as objective as possible I look at it and I just.. I just don't personally like it. And if you do that's fine, but it's weird to me that overall and in general some people like ALL old jerseys more- were they really better, or are you just kinda glorifying the past? There were some good ones and bad ones in the past, just like now.
You'll see it about eras, too. Hockey is great now, but people always pine for the '80s, '90s, '00s, and forget about all the problems.
IceManCat
#StanleyCupChampions2024🏆
DannyGallivan
Your world frightens and confuses me
DannyGallivan
Your world frightens and confuses me
DannyGallivan
Your world frightens and confuses me
maxbme
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I think hockey should be played on grass with a big ball. Sorry. Just my opinion
NyQuil
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I'm not sure why people are obsessed with making hockey more popular.
"We need more star power in the league to generate more revenue."
"We need to market our players better."
Why? Why do we need more revenue?
NHL players are being paid millions to play a sport. What changes if suddenly they and the owners make more money?
The cap keeps going up which means the NHL keeps making more money as it stands.
"We need more star power in the league to generate more revenue."
"We need to market our players better."
Why? Why do we need more revenue?
NHL players are being paid millions to play a sport. What changes if suddenly they and the owners make more money?
The cap keeps going up which means the NHL keeps making more money as it stands.
tardigrade81
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DannyGallivan
Your world frightens and confuses me
Rant time... Like Nyquil said (above a couple of posts) I'm against the urge to sell the game to non-traditional markets. To the average Canadian fan, there is no benefit to further expansion (unless you live around Quebec City, but the NHL will ignore you for another generation at least). Why should we care about lining the pockets of the owners with expansion money, or bigger deals from American networks. The thought of making the NHL more like the NBA causes me to throw up in my mouth a little bit. Either sports fans can love the NHL for what it is, or watch something else. I could care less if we're the fourth most popular spectator sport in the U.S. or the first.
ArGarBarGar
What do we want!? Unfair!
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Hot take alert:
1. Removing checking from hockey would not make it like soccer or figure skating or any so-called "pansy" sport. The fundamentals of hockey revolve around skating on ice and shooting a puck into the net. Checking is one aspect of the sport that is legal in some leagues and illegal in others, but all of them are classified as hockey.
2. After seeing the trauma that Johan Franzen has gone through post-career I am much less entertained by big hits than I used to be, and would continue to watch the NHL even if they removed checking entirely.
1. Removing checking from hockey would not make it like soccer or figure skating or any so-called "pansy" sport. The fundamentals of hockey revolve around skating on ice and shooting a puck into the net. Checking is one aspect of the sport that is legal in some leagues and illegal in others, but all of them are classified as hockey.
2. After seeing the trauma that Johan Franzen has gone through post-career I am much less entertained by big hits than I used to be, and would continue to watch the NHL even if they removed checking entirely.
Machinehead
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Trying to mimic soccer would be dumb, I agree.
But we shouldn't actively try to make it "less like soccer" by putting in ridiculous repercussions for diving. Let's worry about headshots and repeated lockouts before we worry about diving.
The rampant diving in soccer is an internet meme anyway. It's about the same level as what you see in hockey.
DannyGallivan
Your world frightens and confuses me
Unless you include Kovalev, the diving in soccer is absolutely insane compared to hockey. I think it's a cultural thing... in North America, great pride is taken by playing though pain... having blood run down your face in the middle of a play, losing six teeth and coming back to score a couple of goals later in the game... scoring an overtime goal on a broken ankle. For whatever warped reason, the emasculating image of diving or (worse) faking injuries is not only acceptable but expected in soccer.
