Kinda nervous posting this (hockey related)

[El Fangel]

Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon If they already do them, then why did you list it as an improvement they should make?

I meant for something completely different from what they have now.

Was thinking about it last night, that maybe during the game, you have to always have a rookie forward and a rookie dman on the ice.

And always a rookie goalie.

Thoughts people.

Originally Posted by parkmania When they instituted the Shootout, NHL had been doing market research for a couple years, and the one thing that casual fans hated more than anything was that the game could end without a winner. And let's face it - the NHL needed (and still needs) to appeal to the casual fan in an effort to make them dedicated fans. It's an old hockey adage: "A tie is like kissing your sister."

The casual fan really doesnt understand hockey though, thats the problem.

Thats like me, a casual football fan saying that ties in football should be a TD chance with a wide receiver vs a linebacker.

Or in basketball a player at center court has to get by someone ay the free throw line and make a dunk.

Or in baseball, pitcher vs batter, if pitcher strikes out batter his team wins, if batter hits then his team wins.

None of those one on ones seem appealing to me, so why should our sport be ruined by casual (and face it, by casual they mean sunbelt americans or americans in general) fans who want to see a skills competition.

You try that football thing, they would be in an unending uproar.