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Originally posted by KSig RC
Anyway, to recap: market stars, don't make drastic moves to increase scoring or decrease fighting (ie moving to 4 on 4, etc), do make moves to continue to eliminate trapping by enforcing obstruction and interference rules in the neutral zone, create a 'world cup' to keep fan interest in between olympics, and create stronger grassroots interest in the game by creating youth programs a la baseball and basketball.
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They do have a world cup of hockey. It's actually this summer at the end of august.
Also the have the world championships every year.
They also have the world Jr. championships every year around christmas time. Very exciting hockey and you will be able to watch future NHLers.
Not tomention the woman's hockey championships too.
And fighting is not part of the game. No league allows fighting. Contact is not allowed until player reach midget (in houseleague...the oldest kids) or until Bantam (in rep hockey...some league might allow it at the major pee wee level in rep hockey).
There is a huge difference in contact and fighting. You can have amazingly skilled players still throwing the hits. But fighting is bullshit. It totally takes away from the game. A few good hits get fan going more than a stupid fight. A great check will have fans talking for days. I fight. A few minutes. The only reason why the LaCavalier/Iginla fight is still being talked about is because they are to great players that NEVER fight. It's like Gretzky and Lemeuix fighting. You can be DAMNed sure that everyone would talk about and you'd probably get more people watching the next game between their 2 teams to see if they would go at it again.
I don't mind contact at all. Contact is part of the game. In fact I would like to see contact in womans hockey.
Skilled players that can throw checks are more fun to watch than goon plyers that can't do shit except jersey someone.