I,m done with nhl

[Aleister Crowley]

I donno if its just me ?, but i,ve been a hockey fan and season ticket holder for many yrs and am bored with the new game.
The game has changed sooooo much , that i just find it boring now.
eg. no bodychecking , no hits , if u do Shanahan gives u a big spanking and suspension.
If you dont want to get hit , dont take up hockey , be a ping pong player....(actually much faster more exciting than hockey now)
So many players are now hog tied from a previous suspension that they just wont hit anymore.
Hitting creates room for scoring ....
its all about WHISTLES AND COPS as a few of my freinds call the new refs.
what happened to hurry up face offs? now the fukking linesmman holds it and holds it , WTF? drop the fukking puck !!!
I shut the game off the other night and I think i,m done with it.
ITS NOT HOCKEY ANYMORE !!!

 

[papillion]

I donno if its just me ?, but i,ve been a hockey fan and season ticket holder for many yrs and am bored with the new game.
The game has changed sooooo much , that i just find it boring now.
eg. no bodychecking , no hits , if u do Shanahan gives u a big spanking and suspension.
If you dont want to get hit , dont take up hockey , be a ping pong player....(actually much faster more exciting than hockey now)
So many players are now hog tied from a previous suspension that they just wont hit anymore.
Hitting creates room for scoring ....
its all about WHISTLES AND COPS as a few of my freinds call the new refs.
what happened to hurry up face offs? now the fukking linesmman holds it and holds it , WTF? drop the fukking puck !!!
I shut the game off the other night and I think i,m done with it.
ITS NOT HOCKEY ANYMORE !!!

I totally agree, haven't watched an NHL game from start to finish once yet.
Less time spent in the stupid pub wasting my money & brain cells this year too

 

[Aleister Crowley]

so what can WE as the viewing fan do?
where do we complain?
seems like they fill the seats in the hockey mad town anyhow ,
but , i do know 75% of my hockey fan freinds feel the same way ,
so there are allot of us with this opinion.
there should be a site or fan opinion option on some sports page....
the sports reporters and papers here are so in the pocket of Aquillini they would never allow a negitive comment printed.
i guess we complain with our wallets and do give em our $$$$
but , "we are losing our good old hockey game" to dickhead refs and new rules !!!

 

[Aleister Crowley]

There's way more hitting now than ever. You used to hit a guy to remove him from the puck. Now, you hit to tattoo a player along the boards. And the reason why the game is so slow is because we've gone back to the dead puck era. And the team you watch (I presume it's the Canucks) play a god awful boring system. Partially this is because of the personnel they have.

donno what you,ve been watching ?
obviously not Canadian hockey for the past 30 yrs , and have experience to compare the real game and todays game.
the game and players are now FAST , way faster than before , why , because no red line , moving the blue line out and more room behind the net , thus big boys and speed equal bigger hits and more damage , so nhl takes out the hits and leaves the speed......now we have watered down hockey.
move the blue line back , slow it down a bit ,and give us body checks and some hits like old time hockey again.
BadgerJohn , seems to know the game well obviously if he is a pro scout , maybe he can come back with a answer to where our voice's can be heard?

 

[AA_Train]

This hybrid icing has made the game frustrating to watch at times this year because there seems to be almost no consistency in calling it. Half the time what I see as an icing call gets waived off and the times they do call it the players going after the puck are virtually neck and neck yet there's a whistle.

Also, players now are all trying to score those perfect tic-tac-toe type goals and therefore are too pass happy. Most of the time they should go to the net and try to make a move or at least try to beat a goalie straight up. Some people are critical of Ovechkin because they say he doesn't pass enough but I think most of the time he makes the right decision in holding on to the puck and putting a shot on goal because it is more likely a shot will get through instead of a pass. Players are WAY too pass happy these days for some reason, probably because they want to be "good" teammates by seeming unselfish by setting other players up, even if it is the wrong play.