Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!jeff From: jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey Subject: Re: NHL rule change Message-ID: <1581@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 13:53:12 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1581 Posted: Wed Jun 19 13:53:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 16:15:57 EDT References: <1576@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: jeff@dciem.UUCP ( Richardson) Distribution: net Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 35 Summary: > Regarding the new rule change concerning coincidental minors, I favor it. > There is something wrong with a rule that allows a team to gain an advantage > by committing an infraction. A good-skating team can provoke coincidental > penalties to gain the advantage that comes with a 4-on-4. Nonsense. The team doesn't gain an advantage by committing a foul. If 4-on-4 is an advantage, then the advantage is gained when the other team retaliates. In order to provoke coincidental penalties, the good-skating team must first commit an infraction and then hope that a player on the other team retaliates. The other player doesn't have to retaliate, so if he does, his team deserves any disadvantages that go with that penalty, including a 4-on-4 situation. > The same problem > exists in basketball where the losing team will commit foul after foul in > the final minutes of a game in order to slow the clock and get the ball back. Not really because there isn't really anything the team with the ball can do to avoid being fouled. In hockey, they may not be able to avoid being fouled, but they can certainly avoid the retaliation that gives them the disadvantage. > Besides, if 4-on-4's are so exciting, why don't they just play the whole game > 4-on-4? Because 5-on-5's are exciting too. It isn't just each individual situation that makes hockey great, it's also the fact that there are so many different situations. The NHL has just practically eliminated one of them. > Wayne Citrin > (ucbvax!citrin) -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff