The NHL's War on Goalies

Since the late 1990's the NHL has constantly been doing things to increase scoring...They have made rule changes to try and hinder defense...They have continued to look at goalies and find things to change about the position...They basically punished goalies for being good puck-handlers, and took away their right to play the puck outside of the crease....(except for that stupid little trapezoid)...They have scaled down the size of goaltender's equipment, which I had no problem with because at a point, the pads were huge...But to be fair, goalie pads did have to improve and increase in size to a degree...

Technology has continued to change the game...The equipment has changed so much since I was a kid...All these new, lightweight, super torque sticks are insane...Christ, I still have wood sticks!   So players are bigger, stronger, and faster, with high-tech equipment...Goalies and their equipment needed to follow those advances with their own...Not just to compete, but for safety as well...

Of late, NHL talking heads all over TV and Sirius XM NHL Network Radio, GM's and owners, and the NHL brass are making another big push to increase scoring...They say they are seriously considering shrinking the pad size for goalies...I don't think most goalies will have an issue with that, as long as it;s proven that they will be safe with the smaller sizes...Many are talking about increase the size of the goal...I have a problem with that...Increasing the size of the goal could drastically impact the record books...All the sudden Connor McDavid is going to have all this extra space to squeeze pucks in, and to hell with the History that Gretzky, Howe, Messier, Dionne, Esposito, Selanne, Jagr, Yzerman, Hull, Bucyk, Lafleur, Orr and the others greats built...

If you increase the size of the goal, every goal scored from that point on gets an asterisk next to it...

Then they were talking about switching the game completely and going to 4 on 4 or possibly 3 on 3 full-time...What the fuck!?!  First of all the 3 on 3 overtime sucks...It's bullshit...It's a totally different game then what got the two teams to that tie...Fucking garbage...And the goalies get hung out to dry, so how is it any better then a fucking shootout!?!

What all these dip-shits don't think about is that goalies are constantly working on their game...They follow the changes in the game and adjust their game...They use technology to study shooters...To study angles and positioning...Goalies today play a more disciplined, positional style, instead of being reactionary and working just of instincts...

Could all this dolts trying to screw with goalies to increase scoring, realize that right now, the NHL has some great, amazing goaltenders...If you look at the NHL, and say the top 10 players right now...The elite...2 are goalies...at least 4 in the top 20...

How about this...Instead of fucking with goalies...Get on the skaters case...Tell them to work as hard in the off-season as Carey Price and Henrik Lundqvist do...Hell, I'd like to hear a goalie step up and say...'Hey, you want more scoring, get better...Get the puck past me!'

I get it...The NHL brass is lazy...They want to promote scoring to the non-fans and the youth, to try and grow the game...Try promoting the great defense and great goalies...Goalies that will single handedly carry their team to a victory on any given night...Let alone how they carry their team during the playoffs when offensive numbers always drop drastically...

Quit fucking with the goalies...

Unless they look like this!

Monday Moaning

So, I swore off the NFL last year...And I have held my ground pretty firmly...But being in this sports blogging website business, I do tend to read, and hear, and keep an eye on the "trending" shit...Like the New England Patriots, Tom Brady, and Bill Belichick's 'Fuck You Tour' of the NFL...Kinda love that...Loved seeing they handed that dick-bag Greg Hardy and the Cowboys a 30-6 loss!

I have to ask...Hey Hardy....How the fuck does Brady's dick taste!?!

Besides all the rings, and records, there's the making a baby with the hot actress...

And then there's the Super Model wife...

All Hardy (a woman beater) has is a rap sheet and ...Ummm...Well a viral video about what a piece of shit he is!






-Moving along...I didn't do to well on my college football pick'em this weekend...The worst week I've had so far this year...Oh well, shit weeks happen...But I did notice something while watching games and scores...Ohio State only covered the spread versus Virginia Tech, which is something I pointed out in week one, that they cover in revenge games...But the rest of their games, they've been playing like a team that thinks they can just flip a switch, and boom...They'll win...Easy enough against Maryland, Western Michigan, and Northern Illinois...Well, it wasn't even that easy against Northern Illinois...

I wasn't sold on Michigan's dominating last couple wins, because, just like Ohio State, they weren't playing heavy hitters...But after the WOLVERINES abused what has looked like a solid Northwestern team, the Buckeyes better get their shit together before taking on Michigan....Michigan State has looked the same as Ohio State...They need to get their heads out of their asses...The big difference is MSU is playing the right QB...While I think Meyer made a mistake going with Jones...That kid has looked like crap this year...


-My Notre Dame Fighting Irish got back on track beating Navy Saturday...(Covered the spread as I predicted)...But while some have said they still have a shot at the playoffs if they win out, I have to disagree...While their schedule didn't look too weak at the start of the year, it does now...The ACC teams on the schedule, except Clemson, all look like shit...USC has fallen apart, and their coach just took a leave of absence...Texas is junk...And Stanford is solid, but won't carry a enough weight...


- The NHL season started, and we got our first taste of the new, 3 on 3 overtime...I voiced my displeasure about THIS back in June....Well, if you have just under 4 minutes to kill, this is what the first 3 on 3 OT looked like...






Yes, yes, yes...It was a fast paced, end to end action...Oh so thrilling....But it's a totally different game then what got those teams to that point...It's fucking stupid...And all the dicks out there who complain about the games going to a shootout to get the winner...Look what you got...You basically got a shootout decision...That game came down to a couple a one on one breakaways...Way to go, you got the same shit!

Fucking 3 on 3 can eat my ass!


- That's it for now...You won't see me much, as the big move is happening this week...Lots to do...Lots of stress...Lots of excitement...

Have a week...

NHL Wants 3 on 3 Overtime...

The NHL and NHLPA have reached an agreement to switch the overtime format in the 2015-2016 season to a five minute period of 3-on-3 Hockey...

They're fucking killing me!

The idea is to cut down the number of shootouts and have more straight up wins...Yes, they will still go to a shootout if tied after the 5 minute period...(Personally I don't hate the shootout as much as many others do)...I already hated the 4-on-4 overtime...It changes how teams play...And going to 3-on-3 will do that also...Plus going 3-on-3 could give some teams a distinct advantage...Which in my opinion is bullshit...

Example: Lets say a hard-nosed, defensive-minded, grind-it-out style team forces a skilled-passing, offensive-minded, finesse team to overtime...Now that grinder team has lost any edge they had...You've taken two of their players off the ice...Do they (as a defensive team) put two defensemen and one forward out there?   Their opponent is surely going with two forwards and one defensemen...Do they somehow change their style from a chip, chase, and check game, and put their fastest players out there and try to play a wide-open-free-wheeling style, which will hang their goalie out to dry?

I really get annoyed with how the NHL is constantly trying to "Increase Offense"...Defense is great...Do you know why defense is great...Because it's hard...All the rules work against the defensive side of the game, and yet there are players that make their career out of being elite defensive players...And that doesn't even include the goalies and the shit they have to deal with...Everyone wants more scoring, and then they shit all over any goalie who's Goals Against Average goes over 3.00...Bastards!

Another possible rule change that has been accepted, is giving coaches the ability to challenge goals on the basis of goalie interference calls and off-sides calls...

All rule changes are waiting to be approved by the NHLPA's Executive Board and the NHL Board of Governors...

I hope someone wakes up and screams NO!