-SNIP
>But your second point - make the game interesting again - is crucial for the long term. Goons and trap plays make for LOUSY hockey.
Ah, but you're talking from a Canadian's point of view. Americans like the big "goons" who can deliver a knockout hit... not necessarily a dirty hit, but a good hard clean hit.
Yeah we Americans are such savages. :-)
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