What opinion about the NHL are you defending like this?
June 3, 2024
What opinion about the NHL are you defending like this?
32 comments
The trade deadline is too far into the season. You have one team go to the playoffs because another team was good.
The “its the playoffs” argument for calls not being made is stupid
Experience vastly is overrated. The modern NHL game is played at full pace. You need young players capable of playing 100 60 minute games at full pace a year. Veteran players who can’t do that that hurt their teams more then they help by orders of magnitude.
Refs should shut up and not make comments to make it about themselves
That just because they don’t win the cup, a team hasn’t “wasted prime (insert player here).”
NHL should adopt the PWHL jailbreak rule
Hockey can work in Phoenix. The right owner and some draft luck would have changed everything.
It wasn’t a “tougher” era of hockey that allowed headhunters like Ulf and Scott Stevens to murder people, it was insanely stupid and dangerous.
Digital advertisements on the boards make the games unwatchable.
If you go on ltr you can’t return for the playoffs. No matter when it happens. I don’t know if this is unpopular or not.
The nhl has is experiencing fantastic growth and the league overall is doing great, despite what some more close minded northeastern fan bases may have you believe.
Should be 3 points for a regulation win, 2 pts for for an OT/shootout win, 1 pt for an OT/shootout loss, and 0 pts for a regulation loss; winning in regulation should mean more than winning in OT/shootout.
I love reading about how fans think that the GM can trade for anyone in the league especially any top player. And the cap hit wound matter because they could make room. And the team will be a contender after such a trade. Keep dreaming.
The shootout during regular season play is a good thing so that games aren’t going insanely long all year. I also approve of 3v3 play for the shortened overtime.
Smaller market teams are completely justified in blocking ticket sales to opposing fans, as long as the smaller team is filling their arena.
Starting a fight after a clean hit should be a major penalty.
Playoff hockey is fine where it’s at, good mixture of skill and physicality
The offside review rule is stupid and should be gone.
Carey Price was the best goaltender of the 2010s
Salary cap should be adjusted to each teams state and provincial tax rate so that each team is on a level playing field.
Brett Hull’s skate was in the crease, and the goal should have been disallowed.
No more anthems. I’m over it. Also no more two-tone jerseys and bench flybys after a goal. Over that, too haha.
For the real answers to this question, sort by controversial. Some of the opinions here are not unpopular by any measure
There should be way more calls on embellishment
Some new coaches would be nice. Rather than all the existing coaches just moving around perpetually
Utah should pick a name by the start of the season.
Olympic sized rink please
Last year when I said Skinner is the guy for Edmonton I was the severe minority out of my friend groups and what I could see from Oilers fans online. (Side note: I am a Canucks fan)
My take has matured pretty well as you can see.
National anthems are wholly unnecessary and we’d be better off without them.
The league seriously needs to implement a modified salary cap to adjust the imbalance towards tax free cities
Playoff bracket should be 1-8
No idea if this is unpopular or not, but get rid of mid-game interviews. The coaches always say the same things and it’s totally annoying to have that take up half my screen when the puck is in play
32 comments
The trade deadline is too far into the season. You have one team go to the playoffs because another team was good.
The “its the playoffs” argument for calls not being made is stupid
Experience vastly is overrated. The modern NHL game is played at full pace. You need young players capable of playing 100 60 minute games at full pace a year. Veteran players who can’t do that that hurt their teams more then they help by orders of magnitude.
Refs should shut up and not make comments to make it about themselves
That just because they don’t win the cup, a team hasn’t “wasted prime (insert player here).”
NHL should adopt the PWHL jailbreak rule
Hockey can work in Phoenix. The right owner and some draft luck would have changed everything.
It wasn’t a “tougher” era of hockey that allowed headhunters like Ulf and Scott Stevens to murder people, it was insanely stupid and dangerous.
Digital advertisements on the boards make the games unwatchable.
If you go on ltr you can’t return for the playoffs. No matter when it happens. I don’t know if this is unpopular or not.
The nhl has is experiencing fantastic growth and the league overall is doing great, despite what some more close minded northeastern fan bases may have you believe.
Should be 3 points for a regulation win, 2 pts for for an OT/shootout win, 1 pt for an OT/shootout loss, and 0 pts for a regulation loss; winning in regulation should mean more than winning in OT/shootout.
I love reading about how fans think that the GM can trade for anyone in the league especially any top player. And the cap hit wound matter because they could make room. And the team will be a contender after such a trade. Keep dreaming.
The shootout during regular season play is a good thing so that games aren’t going insanely long all year. I also approve of 3v3 play for the shortened overtime.
Smaller market teams are completely justified in blocking ticket sales to opposing fans, as long as the smaller team is filling their arena.
Starting a fight after a clean hit should be a major penalty.
Playoff hockey is fine where it’s at, good mixture of skill and physicality
The offside review rule is stupid and should be gone.
Carey Price was the best goaltender of the 2010s
Salary cap should be adjusted to each teams state and provincial tax rate so that each team is on a level playing field.
Brett Hull’s skate was in the crease, and the goal should have been disallowed.
No more anthems. I’m over it. Also no more two-tone jerseys and bench flybys after a goal. Over that, too haha.
For the real answers to this question, sort by controversial. Some of the opinions here are not unpopular by any measure
There should be way more calls on embellishment
Some new coaches would be nice. Rather than all the existing coaches just moving around perpetually
Utah should pick a name by the start of the season.
Olympic sized rink please
Last year when I said Skinner is the guy for Edmonton I was the severe minority out of my friend groups and what I could see from Oilers fans online. (Side note: I am a Canucks fan)
My take has matured pretty well as you can see.
National anthems are wholly unnecessary and we’d be better off without them.
The league seriously needs to implement a modified salary cap to adjust the imbalance towards tax free cities
Playoff bracket should be 1-8
No idea if this is unpopular or not, but get rid of mid-game interviews. The coaches always say the same things and it’s totally annoying to have that take up half my screen when the puck is in play