I am big fan of Hockey, always have been always will be. That being said the playoffs this year have been very disappointing, after the Canucks where so "easily" dispatched by the Kings I have only watched a few games but they all seem very much the same. Trap the neutral zone with three player and wait for the other team to make a mistake. As this is just my opinion but it makes for some pretty boring playoff hockey. I think back to a game between the Flyers and the Lighting which shows the 1-3-1 formation that the Kings have been using all Playoffs and the Devils used up till the finals. I think that their needs to be a change. I understand that the Canucks have used the same formation, with a few minor changes such as the forward in the zone will press the player with the puck no matter where he is in his zone to get him to move it, also the three in the neutral zone will be between the opponents blue line and the red line and the back player will be right at the blue line not back talking to his goal tender. If you watch the clip of the Lighting and Flyers you will see how most other teams in the league play the system.Flyers vs. Lighting trap pause follow the link for a video of the game that shows the system in action as I would like to see changed.
The rule should be a change to the delay of game rule, any team not trying to gain control of the puck for longer than 3 seconds while not on a line change or on a penalty will be subject to a bench minor of 2 minutes or fine to the coach of $5,000 and to the team of $250,000 (this can be decided by the league after the game has been played). This would make this stop and fast.
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