"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:59:12 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:54:26 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Apr 20, 10:33?pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:10:37 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing

wrote:
And my first action will be to change the size of the hockey puck to
the size of a dinner plate so you can actually see the damned thing on
TV. ?:)

Whatever happened to those electronically augmented pucks you could
actually see?

TV hockey has gone from the days of B/W where you could almost never
see the puck, to color TV where you could sometimes see it, to large
screen HD where you can see it about 80% of the time. ?

Wayne, that's fine but who really cares about the puck? At a hockey
game people want to see blood..

Went to fight and a hockey game broke out.
The fighting is what killed what feeble interest I had in it.
I'm a fight fan when they're wearing trunks and a mouthpiece.
But not seeing the puck was always a pain in the ass.

Hockey was, note the was, a violent contact sport and the occasional
fighting was a huge part of the game - part of the reason you watched
hockey.

When they changed the rules to make hockey more "family" friendly
discouraging fighting, hard cross checking and boarding (because of
the namby pamby crowd opposed to "violence") the viewership and
attendance went down.

Now that these aspects of the sport are returning, viewership is going
up slightly and attendance is improving. Of course part of this is
that the sport has a diluted talent pool and too many teams in the
NHL. In my opinion, hockey needs to pulll back to the original 16
teams - 20 max. Seriously, who needs hockey in Arizona? Or Los
Angeles?

But expansion and the minor leagues were good for my Son In Law. He was the
operations manager for a Minor league team for a few years. So I could get
seats right behind the goal, and get up close look at the player getting
slamed against the glass.

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:37:27 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

But expansion and the minor leagues were good for my Son In Law. He was the
operations manager for a Minor league team for a few years. So I could get
seats right behind the goal, and get up close look at the player getting
slamed against the glass.

Minor league systems are important and that's where all the
development should be done - not at the Major level.