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Terriers Coach Rallies Cry For Bigger Nets
by George Malik on 01/08/07 at 06:21 AM ET
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from the Boston Herald:
The paucity of goals scored this season, epitomized by Saturday night’s 0-0 draw between Northeastern and host Boston University, reaffirmed to Terriers coach Jack Parker the need to enlarge nets.
“College hockey can’t do it (alone), though - the NHL has to do that. When the NHL makes the nets bigger, the rest of us will,” Parker said. “It doesn’t make any sense (not to). If you want more goals scored, you have to somehow disengage the goalies. They’re too good.
“People say that’s not fair to the records of the Gretzky(s) and Bobby Hull(s). It’s unfair to (Brendan) Shanahan and some of the Bruins guys, too,” Parker continued. “In the old days some just OK players could come down and take a 40-foot slapper and put it by the goalie once in a while. You can take a third-line left wing for the Bruins and have him take a 40-foot slapper against my third-string goalie or their third-string goalie and it ain’t going in anymore.
There’s another guy off the Goalies’ Union’s Christmas card list…
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