Unthinkable
01-22-2006, 11:03 PM
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2006/01/22/1406239-sun.html
Too many goalies are being run over in their crease
By AL STRACHAN -- Toronto Sun
Instead, a policy of no-harm, no-foul was introduced. It worked fairly well until this season when a host of other anti-restraint rules made it easier for forwards to crash the crease. And they have been doing so with impunity. It's a situation the league cannot allow to continue. Goalies are the most important players on any team and often the most highly paid.
To allow them to be sitting ducks for minimum-wage plumbers whose primary purpose on the ice is to hurt people, makes no sense whatsoever. But no one wants the return of the video rule which, after an apparent goal had been scored, left fans wondering whether they should cheer or wait for the video replay.
Most GMs feel the answer is to be found in allowing the defencemen more leeway in their treatment of encroaching forwards.
Too many goalies are being run over in their crease
By AL STRACHAN -- Toronto Sun
Instead, a policy of no-harm, no-foul was introduced. It worked fairly well until this season when a host of other anti-restraint rules made it easier for forwards to crash the crease. And they have been doing so with impunity. It's a situation the league cannot allow to continue. Goalies are the most important players on any team and often the most highly paid.
To allow them to be sitting ducks for minimum-wage plumbers whose primary purpose on the ice is to hurt people, makes no sense whatsoever. But no one wants the return of the video rule which, after an apparent goal had been scored, left fans wondering whether they should cheer or wait for the video replay.
Most GMs feel the answer is to be found in allowing the defencemen more leeway in their treatment of encroaching forwards.