harmfuljays wrote:
Chris18 wrote:
Well why don't you & Av go check all those other ice-based planets to see how they play, and leave me grounded here on Earth to watch my collision-laden icing rushes.
Oh Chris you know how the Professor does not like his body contact!
Oh, you wanna throw down? Okay, I'm game.
Watching two guys tangle each other up racing for an iced puck and tumbling into the boards at full speed is not "body contact." That is not hitting, it's just two guys trying to get in each other's way, which, if you knew a damned thing about the game, is AGAINST THE RULES at any level. That's not contact, it's not hitting, and it's not hockey. It's just two guys #1 wasting time that could be better spent playing the game and #2 leads to needless, stupid, career-threatening injuries, and for what!? The chance to see a play that never happens?
You want "old school?" How about we get rid of helmets? How about we let guys get away with blatant two-handed lumberjack chops to the opposition like Bobby Clarke used to do? How about we make goalies wear Jacques Plante masks?
It's one thing to say the game is being over-legislated, which it is, it's another to simply ignore necessary rule changes because of it. Don't lump this in with the trapezoid or the over-the-glass penalty or any other stupid rule changes that have besieged the game of late. Hockey, like any other sport, needs to evolve sometimes.
I don't like body contact? Harmy...give me a few months to get my flabby ass back into form, we can do a drop-in game and have beers afterwards, and you can see whether or not I like "body contact". As everyone well knows, I'm not a big guy, but I'm willing to bet I threw more hits during my time playing than you did. I grew up playing the game, I'm as old-school as anyone...icing as it is right now isn't old school. It's unnecessary.
I may have overreacted just now and thought about editing this post...but fuck it. Maybe I'm getting a little scrappier in my old age. I figure if anyone can appreciate that, it's Jay.