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Hockey Notes On A Sunday Morning
by Paul on 04/19/09 at 07:52 AM ET
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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
• The more playoff hockey there is on television, the more replays we see, the more the game is being micro-managed by referees, media and the NHL. The endless debate on every call is getting annoying.
• Why save percentage is a flawed statistic: When Marc-Andre Fleury steals a goal from Jeff Carter with a quick leg kick, it just counts as another save. It doesn’t tell you that one stop changed a playoff series.
• Strange firing of Doug Risebrough in Minnesota: In a troubled economy and dollars growing ever tighter, don’t you retain a cheapo GM like Risebrough, who has short arms and deep pockets? But then, what would you expect from a clueless owner like Craig Leipold, who did what Gary Bettman told him and left all that Jim Balsillie money on the table in Nashville.
• Anybody who compares Washington’s Mike Green to Paul Coffey never watched Coffey in his prime. Green doesn’t even belong in the same sentence with Coffey.
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I so agree about the micro-managed comment. Coming out of the lockout the league did a really good job of cleaning up the game so it no longer resembled the dreary hook and hold fest of the immediate era. It now hearkens back to when hockey was the exciting sport on the verge in the mid 90s.
Now self-appointed police like Ron McLean and Mike Milbury endlessly show highlights to highlight perceived bad calls or non calls. But it is not at all clear to what end. Do they want a return to the early 2000’s? Do they not see that thier claim that the refs are influencing the outcomes of games cuts both ways. If the ref’s let obvious penalties go, isn’t that influencing the outcome of a game?
During the pregame last night, he perfectly encapsulated the inanity of his point of view. Showing a highlight of a stick being broken, he asked if we should just say if the stick breaks after a slash, there should be no penalty. Not five seconds later he followed it up by saying, the new problem would be that guys would go after sticks all the time. Eureka, there is no justification for a change in the rules after all.
The current interpretation of the rules is not perfect, but it is a reasonable comprise. Change one thing you don’t like and you’ll have a series of unintended effects that will prove worse.
No one really wants to have endless arguments second guessing every little call. McLean and Milbury really need to give it a rest.
Posted by DeafNotDumb from Bellingham, WA on 04/19/09 at 01:22 PM ET