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From: dfjmccarthy@watmath.UUCP (Darryl McCarthy)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Re: NHL rule change
Message-ID: <15198@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 17:27:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 17:27:41 1985
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Reply-To: dfjmccarthy@watmath.UUCP (Darryl McCarthy)
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In article <8314@ucbvax.ARPA> citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) writes:
>    ...a flaw in the rules.  Penalties exist to prevent
>    a team from doing certain things, not to encourage them to do those
>    things.  The new rule removes the encouragement by removing the advantage
>    that good-skating teams would gain by deliberately breaking the rules.

Your right this rule will discourage the good-skating teams from breaking
the rules (if that's what their doing now). But your not looking at the 
other side ofthe coin,  the poor-skating teams are NOW encouraged to 
deliberately break the rules by sending one of their worst players on
to the ice to, as you say, provoke a penalty against a Gretzky. So
now they've gotten rid of a great player, while they're only losing
a so-so player while still staying 5-5. Therefore they are really 
gaining the advantage.

>
>I think that this is a fairly compelling argument.  It's not an attack on the 
>Oilers, who found a flaw in the rules and used it to their advantage (as did
>the Canadiens, who used to spend a great deal of time practicing the 4-on-4).
>It's just an attempt to plug a hole in the rules of hockey.  

The hole that they tried to plug has only been enlarged because of the
many poor-skating teams that will take advantage of this rule.  

>Wayne Citrin
>(ucbvax!citrin)


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                                 	Darryl McCarthy
					University of Waterloo
					Waterloo, Ontario
					(I also have no clever lines)