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[OldBroad]

http://slapshot.blog...ain/?ref=sports


The above article (hope you can access it) appears in today's NYT Sunday Sports along with some letters from readers regarding the articles about Derek Boogaard. One of the suggestions that I find particularly interesting/appealing is to enlarge the arena (a la the Olympic and international arenas) so that the players with skill and speed are given room to outrun and out-manuever those with less of both. I find it really galling that when a team (on today's ice) can't keep up with the skill set of its opponent, it is likely to take to just running at the other team (which is what I think happened in last year's Cup finals, just my opinion, and frequently happens to the Wings)....

[YzerFan19]

I've wanted larger rinks for a long time anyway, so I'm for it. That said, I think the time for that was during the new arena explosion of the mid-90s. No way the owners will give up the seats to do it now. That said, you can always require all new arenas to be built to the international spec and grandfather in the old ones (like how Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium and the Aud in Buffalo were shorter than regulation). It'll take awhile but eventually we'll get the entire league switched over.

[jwmann2]

OldBroad, on December 18, 2011 - 09:54 AM, said:

http://slapshot.blog...ain/?ref=sports


The above article (hope you can access it) appears in today's NYT Sunday Sports along with some letters from readers regarding the articles about Derek Boogaard. One of the suggestions that I find particularly interesting/appealing is to enlarge the arena (a la the Olympic and international arenas) so that the players with skill and speed are given room to outrun and out-manuever those with less of both. I find it really galling that when a team (on today's ice) can't keep up with the skill set of its opponent, it is likely to take to just running at the other team (which is what I think happened in last year's Cup finals, just my opinion, and frequently happens to the Wings)....

I can agree with the article. My least favorite aspect of the game is the major traffic in the corners of five or six guys scraping at the puck. It would be tough to expand the rinks, less seats means less revenue. No way the owners would go for it.