On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Jerry Stephens wrote:
 
> Mike always has the rule book at hand.  Which is great!  Don't get me
> wrong.  If I had had to guess, I would have guessed that the home team
> always gets the advantage.
 
It used to be that way...
 
> Which brings me to my point.  Hockey is the only sport (at least the only
> sport I follow) in which the home team has an advantage which goes beyond
> what most people consider, such as the crowd for example.
 
I take it you're not a baseball fan..
 
> I know someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but the home team has the
> rights to last lineup change which permits a dictation of match-ups, as
> well as the ability to place their bench and defend the goal during two
> periods to make it easier to accomplish line-changes during play.  Are
> there other, perhaps more subtle, advantages that the home team enjoys?
 
As previously noted, center-ice faceoffs...anything concerning warmups?
 
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