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More Proof Clutching & Grabbing Is Back
by Paul on 02/14/12 at 01:05 PM ET
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from Sean Gordon of the Globe and Mail,
It’s also becoming more common - seven seasons after the post-lockout crackdown on clutching and grabbing, defencemen can usually get away with rubbing out a forward when a puck is dumped in or chipped past them.
As someone who stands to benefit from this leniency, Pittsburgh’s Brooks Orpik makes an unlikely whistleblower.
But blow the whistle he has.
“(The NHL) didn’t tell us they were going to go easy on us (defencemen),” he told the Tribune-Review a few days ago. “But it’s pretty obvious that it has changed.”...
The tinfoil-hat types may see this as part of the grubby jostling that will characterize the CBA negotiations. It almost certainly isn’t, but just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean no one’s out to get you.
It’s beyond dispute that one traditional form of generating offence - the power-play - is on the wane.
The NHL has gotten worse with the man-advantage, the 30 teams collectively score just over 17 per cent of the time.
And the fact is, there are fewer and fewer power-plays being awarded in the NHL these days.
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