Fighting will always remain an exciting part of hockey from a fan’s perspective, regardless of bleeding heart support to stop the act of throwing the gloves off.
5) Changes to the way linesmen approach icing will hopefully reduce the worrisome issue of dangerous end board collisions that occur during races for the puck.
6) Goaltender padding will finally be reduced. The days of seeing ridiculously large equipement on goaltenders are over. Scoreboards will no doubt show the effects of this rule change.
7) The elimination of tie games due to the incorporation of a shootout is a welcome addition by most fans of the game. A tie game at the end of regulation will be followed by a four-on-four five minute overtime, and then followed by a three man per team shootout if both teams are still deadlocked. If still tied after this, then a sudden death shootout will begin to produce a winning team. The winning team will receive two points: the loser in overtime or a shootout one point; and the loser in regulation zero points.
A Summary of Player Movement:
Mike Peca, Jeremy Roenick, Darian Hatcher, Peter Forsberg, Tony Amonte, Paul Kariya, Bobby Holik, Scott Niedermayer, Nikolai Khabibulin, Sergei Gonchar, Brian Leetch, Chris Pronger, Mike Rathje, Adam Foote, Gary Roberts, and Joe Nieuwendyk are but a few players who have moved on to new teams.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement, all rule changes, and all player movement can be viewed at http://www.nhl.com/.
Austin Culley is an avid fan of NHL hockey, and Vice President for Oil-Net.Com Inc.
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