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More Room Needed On The Ice

07/09/2015 at 4:28pm EDT

from Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province,

When the NHL Board of Governors took the advice of both the players and the general managers and agreed to 3-on-3 overtime, they officially admitted something that has stared them in the face for the past 25 years.

In trying to end more games in overtime, rather than having them go to the increasingly less enthralling shootout, these all-seeing wizards who control the sport finally officially admitted that in order to generate the goal that is needed to end the game before the shootout, they needed fewer players on the ice.

Or stated another way, they admitted that the more room on the ice there is, and the fewer employees there are on the ice, the more likely it is that goals will be scored.

In fact, the direction in which they should be going if they wish to make the game as entertaining as it once was is to make the ice bigger — or totally change the game and go to 4-on-4.

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