With today's technology, you absolutely can shrink the equipment size without increasing danger to goaltenders.
- buffalofan19

agreed- changes can be made- but some of the things im reading about are just silly (some even suggested by retired goalies).

*** waits ***
- Der Kaiser

1977-78

Hajt
Schoenny
Korab
Dunn
Guevremont
Fogolin

I feel like there's so many ways you can pair these guys up it's crazy.

I think I'd like to see:

Gorges - Bogosian
Pysyk - Ristolainen
McCabe - Franson
- HonkFortheGoose

This is what I was hoping for

he's too old
- homiedclown

FTFY.

http://sabrenoise.com/201...buffalo-sabres-time-team/


second d pairing

I for one do NOT need more scoring to be entertained by hockey, i think its the borderline hockey fans that they are trying to draw in. One think i hate, the review, NHL is not the NFL, they really need to re-visit that whole system in the offseason and get rid of it completely or make MAJOR changes to it. Including the offisides, being able to review something that happened 2 mins prior to a goal is outrageous. Plus if they are going to do that, and i have not seen anyone mention this, ALL of that time needs to go back on the clock. Because if they deemed that the goal is not allowed because play was over due to an offside than the play was dead and the goal is reversed and the time needs to be added back to the clock.
- CoHo_to_B-Lo

yeah, the NHL is definitely tripping over it's own feet a LOT trying to draw in new fans. the "southern experiment" has mostly failed. trying to "liven up th game" is failing, etc. obviously, goalies are way bigger than they used to be, but skilled players still get pucks past them. bigger nets would just give everyone but the goalies better stats.

FTFY.
- ImThatGuy

http://www.urbandictionar...?term=leaky+anus+syndrome

http://sabrenoise.com/201...ork&utm_campaign=TeamNews

yeah, the NHL is definitely tripping over it's own feet a LOT trying to draw in new fans. the "southern experiment" has mostly failed. trying to "liven up th game" is failing, etc. obviously, goalies are way bigger than they used to be, but skilled players still get pucks past them. bigger nets would just give everyone but the goalies better stats.
- seedy

theyre misguided in their attempt to grow the game by attracting the fringe fan and in turn chasing away their original fan base.

cater 100% to the lifelong core fan- and youll have a devoted fan base for generation after generation.

I for one do NOT need more scoring to be entertained by hockey, i think its the borderline hockey fans that they are trying to draw in. One think i hate, the review, NHL is not the NFL, they really need to re-visit that whole system in the offseason and get rid of it completely or make MAJOR changes to it. Including the offisides, being able to review something that happened 2 mins prior to a goal is outrageous. Plus if they are going to do that, and i have not seen anyone mention this, ALL of that time needs to go back on the clock. Because if they deemed that the goal is not allowed because play was over due to an offside than the play was dead and the goal is reversed and the time needs to be added back to the clock.
- CoHo_to_B-Lo

Neither do I, but i'd appreciate more back and forth hockey and more chances vs the amount of minutes wasted going d to d or turning over possession on a meaningless dump in because of the neutral zone trap.

nice read

http://sabrenoise.com/201...mpaign=Trending%20on%20FS

I for one do NOT need more scoring to be entertained by hockey, i think its the borderline hockey fans that they are trying to draw in. One think i hate, the review, NHL is not the NFL, they really need to re-visit that whole system in the offseason and get rid of it completely or make MAJOR changes to it. Including the offisides, being able to review something that happened 2 mins prior to a goal is outrageous. Plus if they are going to do that, and i have not seen anyone mention this, ALL of that time needs to go back on the clock. Because if they deemed that the goal is not allowed because play was over due to an offside than the play was dead and the goal is reversed and the time needs to be added back to the clock.
- CoHo_to_B-Lo

I don't need more scoring like most are thinking, I would like people to be able to break the 100point barrier again. No one even broke 90 last year.

I would like to see more than 1 50 goal scorer again.

I would like to see action, there have been several games I have watched this year where it has been dump, chase, dump chase, dump chase, and you end up with the SOG for the game being 20 a piece. And that is boring.

I would like to see action, there have been several games I have watched this year where it has been dump, chase, dump chase, dump chase, and you end up with the SOG for the game being 20 a piece. And that is boring.
- ImThatGuy

smaller goalies and bigger nets should definitely fix these issues!!!!

I don't need more scoring like most are thinking, I would like people to be able to break the 100point barrier again. No one even broke 90 last year.

I would like to see more than 1 50 goal scorer again.

I would like to see action, there have been several games I have watched this year where it has been dump, chase, dump chase, dump chase, and you end up with the SOG for the game being 20 a piece. And that is boring.
- ImThatGuy

In 05-06, after the lockout
7 players got over 100 points
14 players got 90 or more points

5 players got 50 or more goals

11 players got 40 or more goals



the clutching and grabbing has come back to the game, and it shows

1977-78

Hajt
Schoenny
Korab
Dunn
Guevremont
Fogolin
- homiedclown

You missed it.

That's a better looking D than we have had in like EVER !

In 05-06, after the lockout
7 players got over 100 points
14 players got 90 or more points

5 players got 50 or more goals

11 players got 40 or more goals



the clutching and grabbing has come back to the game, and it shows
- homiedclown

This....x1,000,000

in 2003-04

1 player got over 90 points, st louis
6 players got over 80 points

3 players lead the league with 41 goals
8 players got 35 or more goals

This....x1,000,000
- HonkFortheGoose

I did not need a graph or pie chart to prove my point either

in 2003-04

1 player got over 90 points, st louis
6 players got over 80 points

3 players lead the league with 41 goals
8 players got 35 or more goals
- homiedclown

He happened to be 28 that year.

2014-15

benn leads league with 87 points
5 players got over 80 points

9 players got over 35 goals

3 players for over 40 goals

Neither do I, but i'd appreciate more back and forth hockey and more chances vs the amount of minutes wasted going d to d or turning over possession on a meaningless dump in because of the neutral zone trap.
- Sabresfan-365

Go back to what it was in the 90's. I took an arbitrary number of 1,10, 20 and 30, 40, 50 to see how many points that person had in that season. Picked a Random year of 96-97

96-97
1) Lemieux - 122 points (50G)
10) Shanahan - 88 points (47G)
20) Hull - 82 points (42G)
30) Mogilny - 73 points (31G)
40) Kamensky - 66 points (28G)
50) Andreychuk - 61 points (27G)

32 players had 30G+ seasons

Last year
1) Benn - 87 pints (35G)
10) Sedin - 73 points (18G)
20) Nash - 69 points (42G)
30) Steen - 64 points (24G)
40) Carter - 62 points (28G)
50) Burns - 60 points (18G)

15 players had 30G+ seasons

2014-15

benn leads league with 87 points
5 players got over 80 points

9 players got over 35 goals

3 players for over 40 goals
- homiedclown

He's 26 now. It's over for him.

He happened to be 28 that year.
- Der Kaiser

He's 26 now. It's over for him.
- Der Kaiser

#peaked

Go back to what it was in the 90's. I took an arbitrary number of 1,10, 20 and 30, 40, 50 to see how many points that person had in that season. Picked a Random year of 96-97

96-97
1) Lemieux - 122 points (50G)
10) Shanahan - 88 points (47G)
20) Hull - 82 points (42G)
30) Mogilny - 73 points (31G)
40) Kamensky - 66 points (28G)
50) Andreychuk - 61 points (27G)

32 players had 30G+ seasons

Last year
1) Benn - 87 pints (35G)
10) Sedin - 73 points (18G)
20) Nash - 69 points (42G)
30) Steen - 64 points (24G)
40) Carter - 62 points (28G)
50) Burns - 60 points (18G)

15 players had 30G+ seasons
- ImThatGuy

Brett Hull peaked at 27