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Suggestions For The Game

by Paul on 06/05/07 at 10:28 AM ET
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from mjd at The Fanhouse,

But I’ve been thinking about what could get me back into hockey, and I’ve come up with five suggestions. It’s kind of a shame that I’m putting this post into FanHouse’s NHL section ... the people there already love their game, they don’t need me to sell them on it, and I hope this isn’t taken as an outsider telling hockey fans what’s wrong with their sport.
That’s not the intention here. I think hockey’s a solid and entertaining game to watch, and nothing would please me more than if the NHL could re-sink that hook into my mouth and reel me back in. Here are a few places they can start.
Someone, Somewhere in the NHL, Is Going to Have to Develop a Personality.
If Tim Duncan was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers tomorrow, he’d immediately become the most dynamic and outrageous personality in the NHL. That’s not good.

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Move The Blueline

by Paul on 06/05/07 at 08:30 AM ET
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from The Maven,

• This from Ken Hitchcock on those who keep trying to improve The Game: “We’ve out-thought ourselves. We moved the bluelines and people adjusted and now sometimes you’re playing against five goalies. There’s a lot of shot-blocking and I’d like us to re-test and move the bluelines back in. See if it can create more chaos where the shots are coming quickly and they can’t block as many. And you’re closer to the net, so chances are you’re going to score.”
• Mike Milbury’s next destination might be as a TV analyst. Yet in his post-Isles comments it’s evident that The Mad One would love most of all to coach. But where?
Well, there’s an opening less than 50 miles from MM’s Garden City home and it’s in New Jersey.

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NHL Will Address Head Shots

by Paul on 06/04/07 at 08:48 PM ET
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from the AP via Yahoo,

“There’s going to be an attempt to draft some type of rule about a hit directly to the head,” Ducks GM Brian Burke said. “My prediction is it’s going to be hard to draft it, but I think we owe it to our players to try.”
Added Sabres GM Darcy Regier: “For me, for our organization, I think it’s a step in the right direction.”

read on... plus others changes discussed but no resolutions…

added 7:11pm, from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,

The league will almost certainly introduce a major penalty for interference (currently there is none on the books) to prevent another Tomas Kaberle-Cam Janssen sort of incident and will also ensure that all face-offs will occur at the nearest dot.
And while Nashville Predators’ general manager David Poile believes that bigger nets will eventually have to come, there was little support for that change in the here and now, according to the Minnesota Wild’s Doug Risebrough.

more on the head shots too…

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This Could Have Been Avoided

by Paul on 06/04/07 at 04:30 PM ET
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from Al Strachan at Fox Sports,

Fans are understandably sick of hearing about financial issues, but a couple of recent revelations bear noting.
One is that it appears that the NHL Players Association will exercise its right to have the salary cap raised to the maximum permissible level. That should push it over $50 million.
Those of you who remember commissioner Gary Bettman’s assurance that the salary cap he needed to impose would keep ticket prices down might wonder about this.
Bettman could have prevented the year-long shutdown of the league by accepting a PA proposal that would have set payrolls at approximately $42 million. He refused, saying that such a figure was beyond the reach of owners. Two years later, we’re at $50 million.

more on this, plus a few other NHL topics, including the Pronger suspension…

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Talking About Head Hits But Not Much Else

by Paul on 06/03/07 at 06:58 PM ET
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from Ken Campbell at the Hockey News,

“We’ve been talking about this for a year,” said one GM. “I don’t think (Saturday) night will have a lot to do with the discussions. It will be discussed. We know the players want it discussed and it’s something we’ll have continue to work through.”
“We’re in a contact sport and people are going to get hurt,” said Ducks GM Brian Burke. “The notion we’re going to take away hitting in the game because a big guy is going to hit a little guy…we can’t take that out.”

read on... and I remember Chelios stating a few weeks ago the NHLPA will do something about head hits this summer…

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Player Movement Talk

by Paul on 06/03/07 at 01:45 PM ET
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Spector recaps the Satellite Hot Stove talk from last night on HNIC and touches on some other player movement talk.
I want to add this, don’t believe any of the made-up rumors of Hasek signing with any other team besides Detroit.  He either plays with thw Wings or retires, end of story.

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Destination:  Canada

by Paul on 06/03/07 at 01:02 PM ET
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from the Vancouver Province,

Canada, thanks largely to the hugely appreciated loonie, is a much more attractive place for the NHL to do business than it was a decade ago. And the new salary cap system has really benefited the smaller-market Canadian clubs. But Canadians shouldn’t get too carried away with the idea that NHL franchises will start popping up north of the 49th parallel.
James Brander, a professor at University of B.C.‘s Sauder School of Business puts it into perspective.
“If you just look at the basic economics, it looks like there should be room for one more team in Canada and one less in the U.S.,” he said.

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Foppa Talks

by Paul on 06/03/07 at 11:08 AM ET
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A very rough translation of this article in the AftonBladet follows, but Forsberg states he feels good and if he doesn’t play in Europe he is leaning to play for one of the three teams he has played for in the past (Philly, Colorado or Nashville).
Read on for the translation…

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S.C With E.J.

by Paul on 06/02/07 at 08:47 PM ET
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E.J. Hradek of ESPN did a pretty in-depth video interview with Sidney Crosby after he received the Art Ross Troply.

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Outdoor Game Discussed

by Paul on 06/01/07 at 08:25 PM ET
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from E.J. Hradek at ESPN,

According to league sources, the NHL is planning another outdoor game for the 2007-08 regular season. The date, site and clubs involved were not disclosed.
The sources did indicate the game will likely include at least one American-based team and it will be televised in the U.S. by NBC as part of its regular-season schedule.

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