I would agree that the skill level in the NHL is way higher than in
college; but I don't think you can attribute this to small rinks.  The
argument, and I agree, is that larger rinks would make the game even
more of a skating game.  In general, the assertion that College Hockey
is dirtier than pro leaves me incredulous.  I have never seen more
vicious stick work to the head than I have seen in the NHL the last few
years. It will only be matter of time before someone get killed or
maimed (i.e. lose an eye) in the NHL; it's getting that ugly.  I don't
have this fear about College (I am not counting accidents of course, as
we all know too well).  Is that because College is cleaner or is it
because they wear face shields?  Ooh, I guess I shouldn't go there,
never mind :)
 
 
 
Gary
 
 
 
Eric and Jennifer Burton wrote:
>
> >From Clay Satow: "I think it's just a fact of life now that the Frozen Four
> will
> >need to be in an NHL sized rink."
> >
> >This is really a shame.  One of the best things about college hockey is
> that
> >Olympic sized rinks promote a more exciting, skating style of play versus
> the
> >NHL.
>
>     I guess you have not watched the NHL lately, Sakic, Forsburg, Jager,
> Lindros, Bure, Federov, Satan,  Fleury, Allison, Samsonov, Madono, Anson
> Carter etc can skate better than most (Proabably 95 %) college players,
> also, both teams left in the playoffs both are great skating teams Buffalo
> and Dallas. Especially dallas. I hear this argument all the time, oh college
> hockey is so much better than the NHL, if that was true the NHL would be out
> of business. I am a great fan of college hockey but I would much rather
> watch the NHL than college hockey any day, one reason is the play is a lot
> cleaner in my opinion, one dirty stick foul off comes the gloves and that
> person thinks twice about hacking some one the second time around. The NHL
> players are all around a lot better players as far as shooting, skating,
> checking and the game has more of a flow to it. It is also exciting to see
> the Fighting Sioux have so many players left in the finals. I had this
> discussion with some people at work and it just make me laugh. As far as the
> NHL going to the bigger ice sheet it won't happen, not everyone likes and I
> think if you took a poll you would find that people don' t want to see, also
> you would have the hockey purests down your troat. After watching the
> olympics and college I think Olympic ice it is a hinderance, even the teams
> that play on it have trouble holding the puck in on the power play, heck
> watch MSC on a friday or Saturday night and you will see what I mean.
>
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