From JohnKryk: Mowing the lawn is less boring than watching playoff hockey - and the NHL doesn't seem to care. Heck, they actually encourage it.
But like good Will Hunting, it’s not their fault. And the longer the playoffs go, annually, the less of that we see.
That’s the difference. Stars are still permitted to be stars in the NBA playoffs, to this day. When play got too defensive-minded a few post-seasons ago, the league opened up the game in a finger-snap.For a livin’ fact, an NHL playoff team’s stars of the show, for decades now, are not the superstars but rather the muckers. It’s as bass-ackwards as ever this playoff season.
Maybe the NHL actually likes this. Maybe loves this. And, surely, 30-odd years later, wants all this to continue.Advertisement 7To be sure, larger ice surfaces might have helped back when clubs from coast to coast come the 1990s suddenly began building new arenas, rife with cash-cow luxury boxes — to a size somewhere between the tight North American dimensions and the enormous European ice sheets.
The great Phil Esposito always says he didn’t even get warmed up on a shift until 30 seconds in. Now the average shift for forwards is only slightly longer than that. It’s an entirely different game, where all players are figuratively running the 100 metres, all out, rather than pacing themselves over 800.
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