New to hockey.....ask any question you have. No judgement here

CLEPTO ...

Same for all questions.  The NHL has NBA mentality.  They want tons of goals scored and are catering to fans that don't know icing from offsides.

I can make this real easy.  In the major sports, home advantage in pucks is very small.  Since they have made all the rinks pretty much the same size there really is no advantage.  It used to be home ice was really an advantage.

The small ice surface in the old garden was brutal on the visiting teams.  Boston was always built to smash you into the boards. When you played on the old Chicago ice you used to have to through the crowd and step down almost two feet to the ice. 

You just don't have that anymore.

Dogs are not the great play they used to be.  Since the rule changes/lockout, things opened up and the better teams got better and the dogs have been getting ran over. Before you could just clog the middle and slow the game down to try to even things out.  You could grind out a one goal lead and just play a 1-2-2 zone and clutch and hold till the end of the game.

Now there are some good dog plays, but you have to pick your spot.  During  January and Feb. you can get some good dog plays.  Teams start to go through the motions.  Now at the trade deadline in March the dogs will just get ran over like crazy.  The bad teams have mostly cashed it in and have called it a season.

There is a start for ya.

Because of that stupid instigator rule.  3rd guy in gets ejected.

I know......We have both bitched and moaned about that damn 3rd point since they started it.