Hockey needs to do something drastic. I watched as a kid. The lockout in...91? 92? Well, it's not worth doing research on, that's for sure. They should make the ice Olympic sized (much bigger). It spreads the game out and allows the athletes to skate much faster. More passing, more puck control, but most importantly, more scoring and of course more open ice hitting. The NHL is like the NBA before they added the three point line. Every bodies all smashed together. There isn't enough room out there to show their freakish talent. I would love to love hockey again.
I think that's a bit of a misnomer. You have to realize that "THE TRAP" and all those defensive systems that we hate and despise all pretty much originated on the bigger ice surfaces and they make use of the bigger ice surfaces. Bigger ice does not mean more scoring. It seems counter intuitive, but the smaller surface actually makes for a FASTER game since there's less room to cover and a shorter distance to the net. A lot of the European grew-up-on-large-surface players prefer the smaller ice sheet.
