Clay Satow asks,
"Also,if the "big ice" theory is right, one would expect that there is a lot
less clutching and grabbing on the games played on 200 x 100 rinks. Is that
your observation?"
For what it's worth, Joe Thornton weighed in on this issue. He's playing in
Sweden (I think) while the NHL is in mandatory vacation mode. He says he's
actually experiencing more clutching and grabbing over there, on the big ice
sheet, than he sees normally in the NHL.
George Downing
UNH '92