Glad to see I'm in the bell curve on this one, meaning, most of you guys are smart.
Toe to heel- the tape stretches the wrong way and you get those little flaps on the top of the blade. I HATE that. That's my main reason for not going toe to heel.
I do the same as Bosc- the strip along the bottom of the blade. I used to put a strip along the bottom 1" on the backhand side of the blade for my kids, thinking I'd add a little "cushion" for the puck as it often bounced. Then I just freaked out more that they needed to soften their hands when receiving passes on their backhands and that worked. May cause therapy later on, but they can now handle passes.
I wish Mythbusters was still around. I'd love to see some scientific studies end this argument, as I've had it with many people over the years. To me, the size of the "bumps" the tape edges cause are not even noticeable to a 3" diameter puck, especially when you take into consideration that the tape isn't running perfectly straight up and and down, but on an angle, so there's really only the first "bump" and then the puck is at that level due to the angle of the tape. Plus, how often is your blade perfectly vertical with the puck on it? Almost never. There's a contact area of like 0.01" of puck, by 1" if your blade is perfectly vertical and almost nothing once you tilt that blade. Top corner of the puck.
I wrote a longer, more detailed post before and of course, lost it due to the mysterious timeout issue.
You're probably all happy about that. Or should be.