ESPNHL
Sunday January 16, 2005 at 11:12 pm | Filed under On the Web, Sports
ESPN got sick of waiting for the NHL to get it together, so they have formulated a new league. It’s a bummer it’s not real, but it’s the best attempt I’ve seen so far at some serious changes to the sport, backed up by good arguments. Traditionalists would probably be surprised by what ESPN has come up with, but after reading through a lot of the “proposal”, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea. The killer would be all new teams. I’d have to find a new team as there wouldn’t be a San Jose Sharks. Heck there wouldn’t even be a San Jose team! They even have cities that the league would expand into first and SJ ain’t even on that list. I would probably back the Los Angeles team since it’s the closest to me. Of course this is all just for fun, because unfortunately there is no professional hockey at the moment.
Check out the ESPNHL site and play with the funny flash version of John Buccigross who follows your mouse pointer as you move it around. If you leave the window open without doing anything for awhile, he goes a little nuts.
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Rich Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 8:22 pmNo fighting allowed. Sorry, not interested. I’ll stick with NHL.com’s “Quest for the Best.”
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Joe Says:
January 18th, 2005 at 9:13 pmI know fighting serves it’s purpose and all, but I could actually do without it. I’m all for lighting up the scoreboard. Let the good goalies have a 6.89 GAA. I do, however think that the penalties that they propose for fighting are a bit heavy.
It’d be interesting to see what would drive crowds/viewers more: more scoring or more fighting. I would guess soring but each time I’m at a game and the crowd comes to their feet when a fight breaks out, it’s quite a response.
But think of playoff hockey with an additional 4 or 5 goals per side a game. How cool would that be? No fighting needed except when there’s a blowout. I guess if I had to pick I’d keep the fighting, but I’m not so much of a traditionalist that I’d be against rule changes to let the offenses loose. Look at how great that’s worked in football. Great defense doesn’t usually stop people from scoring, bad offense does.