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In the 1990s, the Braves came into households all across the nation each night on TBS and became America's Team. I was one of those youngsters who tuned in almost every night to root on the Braves… and Bobby Cox is largely the reason why.
Retiring at the end of the season, Cox managed his final game last night as the Braves were eliminated from the NLDS by the San Francisco Giants. It seems fitting that they showed a feisty disposition and flair for the dramatic all season – winning games on late inning home runs and clawing their way back for come from behind wins, much like their manager Bobby Cox who's been ejected more than any other Major League manager in history. But they just couldn't close it out this year.
"They've come a long way with this team," Cox said. "They played their hearts out, and I'll miss them."
In the top of the seventh inning, Cox made the walk he's made so many times before to the mound to remove a starting pitcher and bring on relief. But as he approached the mound, veteran righty Derek Lowe pled his case and soon Cox jogged back to the dugout without asking for the ball.
It couldn't have been a more emblematic moment for the man eternally called a "player's manager".
"The guys wanted so bad to get Bobby back to the playoffs," said Chipper Jones, who has played 2,261 games for Cox, the second-most player/manager duo in history behind Hall of Famers Honus Wagner and Fred Clarke. "And once we got a chance to go to the playoffs, we wanted so bad to get him back to the World Series. All those things contributed to the grit and guts this team played with all year."
The Braves players had T-shirts made up for the playoffs that said 11 for 6. It takes 11 wins to become World Champions and the Braves would do it all for Cox's No. 6.
"He is one of a kind," Braves closer Billy Wagner said. "There will never be another Bobby Cox, who has so much influence not just on your life, but your career. Even when you played against him, you were a fan of the Braves."
Cox spent 25 years as the Braves skipper and four more in Toronto. He has also served as the Braves' general manager and between playing and coaching, spent 50 years in baseball. He finished his career fourth all-time in regular season games (4,508) and wins (2,504). The Braves' playoff appearance this year is a record setting 16th appearance for Cox. He has won four Manager of the Year Awards and one World Series in 1995 which came in the middle of a 14-year division title run.
In 2010, the Braves won 91 games during the regular seasons. It's the 15th time that a Bobby Cox-managed team has won at least 90 games in a season. Only 2 other managers in major-league history had that many 90-win seasons: John McGraw (16) and Joe McCarthy (15) – both Hall of Famers.
Bobby Cox will be eligible for Hall of Fame induction when Expansion Era Committee next considers managers for the Class of 2014. That same year will feature two Cox-era Braves players: Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine. All three have Hall of Fame credentials on their list of career accomplishments.
Of course Lou Piniella and Cito Gaston managed their final regular-season games this year and Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa's future statuses remains unclear. They would all join the list in 2014 as their first eligible election. To date, there have been only two instances of three former World Series-winning managers sharing the same final major-league season.
In 1950, the managerial careers of Connie Mack (Philadelphia Athletics), Joe McCarthy (Red Sox) and Eddie Dyer (Cardinals) all came to an end. Mack and McCarthy went on to Hall of Fame election. The other year in which three World Series winning managers left the major-league stage was 1988, with Dick Williams (Mariners), Billy Martin (Yankees) and Chuck Tanner (Braves). Williams was inducted in 2008.
Despite the end of the Braves season last night, fans stayed in the stadium not to watch the Giants celebrate but to chant "Bobby, Bobby" until their favorite skipper came out of the dugout to doff his cap. In the press conference following the game, Cox found it hard to keep it together and his emotions got the best of him as he reflected on his career in baseball.
Many fans on the other side of the television had a similar reaction. As a kid growing up during the 1990s, Bobby Cox helped make me a baseball fan. The only way to sum it up is to say: Thanks, Bobby!
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The college News VOL. XL, NO. 7 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1943 Copyright, Trustees of Bryn MlwrCollmr. 1943 PRICE 10 CENTS Merion's Freshmen Keep Play Plaque Despite Spirited Acting by Pem West Strength and Unity Displayed in Concert By von Trapp Family "Hyacinth Halvey" Praised As Humerous, Unified Production By April Ourslcr, '46 Goodhart, November 5 and 6: Merion Hall's production of Hya- cinth Halvey, by Lady Gregory, brought the Freshman play plaque to Merion for the second consecu- tive year. According to the com- mittee, this play combined the best qualities of characterization, humor, and unification, although Pembroke West's The Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil won the approval of the majority of the audience. The outstanding characterization in Hyacinth Halvey was the title role, played by Mary Helen Bar- rett, who presented a more mascu- line suggestion in the portrayal of the country gawk than did the male roles of the other plays. The gestures and the walk of Marcia Taff as the old-maid housekeeper were particularly convincing, while all the cast gave their parts a feeling of extreme naturalness. On the whole, the play was exception- ally well-finished and unified, with the details worked out thought- fully and without exaggeration. In contrast to the more polished humor of this play, Pembroke West's The Six Who Pass While the Lentils ..Boil had a brilliance Calendar Saturday, November 13 Merion Hall Dance, 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 16 Current Events, Common Room, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, November 17 International Students' Day Assembly, Goodhart, 10:00 a. m. Skard Tells of Unity Of Anti-Nazi Norway As Shown by Children Common Room, November 15: Under the heel of the conqueror, life for the children of Norway has radically changed, said Mrs. Aase Skard, speaking to a group of students about conditions today in her country. Mrs. Skard, a noted psychologist, is the daughter of a former Norwegian foreign min- ister. Three Factors There are three primary factors which have affected the children: first, undernourishment, not star- vation, but that ever-present feel- ing of hunger; and second, inse- curity. The children never know when they may come home from school to find that their father has been carried off to a concentration camp, or their house has been req- uisitioned by the Nazis. But to counterbalance these forces there is present quite a different ele- ment�a new feeling of security. "The Norwegian nation is now united," Norwegians refuse to be scared. Ninety-nine percent of the people are anti-Nazi, and they all join in passive resistance, in- cluding the smallest children. Nazi Efforts Naturally, the Nazis are doing their best to win over the coming generation, said Mrs. Skard, so that "even if they lose the war, they will win anyway." But their efforts have been singularly inef- fective, and have indeed worked in the opposite direction. For in- stance, the Nazis will specify cer- tain days on which all school children must visit the Hitler youth exhibits. The children then simply do not go to school on those Continued on Page 3 and sparkle high in entertainment value, falling down only in its lack of a uniform standard of perform- ance. Elizabeth Dowling's role as the Ballad Singer was a master- piece of good showmanship, com- bining a feeling for the spirit of the play and for the audience, with excellent gestures and timing. The part of Sir Little Boy, played by Barbara Ruhin was carried through with charm in spite of being slightly uncertain about the lines. Redda Taylor, replete with a Lil' Abner accent, played The Dreadful Headsman with perhaps more humor than the part was worth; but was very effective. The Butterfly showed a good knowledge of pantomime and a Continued on Page 2 Specially Contributed by Sue Coleman, '45 Goodhart, November 9: To the von Trapp family, the performance in Goodhart was"* "more than a concert"; it marked the anniver- sary of their first appearance in this country when they arrived four years ago from their "native mountainous Austria." To the listeners, their perform- ance was infinitely more than a concert. The Baroness Maria von Trapp's sincere, heart - rending words before the closing "Love Song" from the Herbrides Islands expressed the meaning of music, life and human relationships which imbued every sound they imparted to a spellbound audience. The Baroness expressed it so well pri- marily because she spoke for a Continued on Page 3 Mr. Gillet Discusses Good Neighbor Policy Spanish House, November 4: The United States with its mater- ialism will find a complement in the aesthetic spirit of South Amer- ica, said Mr. Gillet in an informal talk to the Spanish Club on Thurs- day. Discussing the Good Neigh- bor Policy, he pointed out that though the method of union is dif- ficult, we both have much to gain by collaboration. The Good Neighbor Policy, Mr. Gillet emphasized, is not yet com- plete. Gradually changing our at- titude from one of active interven- tion in Cuba, Santa Domingo, and Nicaragua, we have repealed the Platt Amendment and have achiev- ed a collaboration of intellectuals. The political results of the last two or three years have been good, , but, said Mr. Gillet, after the Eu- ropean peril is over, there will be some dissension in South America. Quoting many writers of North and of South America, Mr. Gillet pointed out the prejudices which Continued on Page 4 Racial Discrimination Condemned by I.R.C. Common Room, November 3: "Race is largely a matter of atti- tude," said Masamori Kojima of Haverford, opening the Interna- tional Relations Club discussion of racial minorities in the United States. Masamori pointed out that Americans consider certain racial groups inferior merely because they have been raised to hold such a belief. There is discrimination here against a group such as the Negroes, while in another country like Brazil no color line is con- sciously drawn against them. Opportunity Knocks The Honorable Walter Judd of Minnesota, who is considered one of the most outstanding speakers of the country, will speak at a luncheon to be held by the United Nations Council of Philadelphia at 1:30 Satur- day, November 20 in the ball- room of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Mr. Judd's topic will be "China and Our Attitude to- ward China." The speaker will be introduced by Earl Harrison of Philadelphia. The Council has reserved the entire balcony of the ballroom for students, and free tickets are available. Students desiring tickets should leave their names on the door of Miss Robbins' office. Significant Rise In Summer Jobs Indicated by Poll Work in Factories, Fanning Shows Great Increase Over 1942 Moderation Pattern In Culture of China Emphasized by Chan Alliance Establishes New Red Cross Unit In cooperation with the Ardmore Red Cross, the War Alliance is planning a surgical dressings unit to be held two evenings a week in the May Day Room. The classes will be only for Bryn Mawr stud- ents and from 30 to 40 girls will be needed to work each night. Six girls will be sent to the Red Cross for instruction in rolling the dressings and three of them will work on each of the nights inspecting bandages. The first two or three weeks will be spent on blood donor bandages and lat- er the volunteers will roll larger bandages. The classes will begin as soon as tables and benches are set up in the May Day Room. National Policy "We should make it a national policy that there shall be no rac- ial discrimination," stated Masa- mori. There should be a Congress- ional report, he continued, mak- ing an official national policy of _ non-discrimination. M a s a m o r also advocates a Federal law out- lawing the Jim Crow car. Leila Jackson of Bryn Mawr, the next speaker, discussed prob- lems facing the Negro soldier. The Army has sent Negro college graduates from northern cities like Detroit and Chicago into southern areas where they are forced into crowded Jim Crow ten- ement sections. This is hard to reconcile, Leila pointed out, with the fact that American Negro sol- diers are very well treated in Liv- erpool and other English cities. Such discrepancy, she said, is caus- � 'i Continued on Page 4 Goodhart, November 3: The Chinese attitude toward life has always been one of moderation stressed Wing-Tsit Chan in a lec- ture on "China's Place Between the East and West," the last of his series on the "Spirit of Man in Chinese Culture." To the clear- cut either-or policy of other coun- tries China has always opposed its more sagacious policy of both- and. The pattern of moderation, he continued, has never ceased to dominate Chinese culture. .China stands between the West "and what the West thinks of as the East." The West thinks of the East as being all one piece. Ac- tually it is not. It can be divided into India and the Far East; and the Far East, in turn, can be di- vided into China and Japan. There is no system, excepting Buddhism, that cuts across the East as a whole. But Buddhism, Mr. Chan stated, should not be considered Continued on Page 3 In the recent poll held by the Vocational Office to determine the type and extent of summer jobs held by undergraduates last sum- mer, it was significant that 343 out of the 391 polled held some job with the Freshmen registering the unrivalled total of 134. 213 of these workers held full-time jobs as opposed to 80 part-time work- ers, 118 students, and 52 occasion- al volunteers. In comparison with last year's results, there were twice as many students doing factory work in the summer of '43, and a similar in- crease in those engaged in farm- ing. Clerical work, always the most popular, showed little in-, crease, while seven more people attended summer school this year than last. Among the more interesting of the summer jobs were Patricia Kyle's newspaper column, Advice to the Lovelorn, and Barbara Baer's experimentation in Interna- tional Living project. Others in- cluded the college advisor at Bon- wit Teller, an advertising copy writer in Providence, and an in- spector of recording and controll- ing instruments in a Waterbury factory, as well as a worker on soldering and sub - assembly In Milwaukee. Last summer's laboratory work- ers showed an increase of 14 over the previous 13, and included workers in the blood plasma de- partment of a Chicago laboratory, a lab technician in the pathology department of the New York In- firmary for Women and Children, as well as many chemical labora- tory assistants. , Election The Freshman class takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following offic- ers: President, Rose Bateson Vice President, Nancy Bier- with Sceretary, Mary Foster Song Mistress, Alison Bar- bour The Sophomore class takes pleasure in announcing the election of the following offic- ers: President, Patricia Behrens Vice President, Doris Ann Braman Secretary, Dorothy Bruchholz Song Mistress, Margaret Hil- gartner Study Without Books, Singing and Monologues Help Make Versatile Italian Classes Lively "Ecco la signora Lograsso" is dong" changed to "din, dan, don." the phrase that sets the Italian class under way each morning. This "ecco" is accompanied by a wide dramatic gesture out of Tay- lor window, for Miss Lograsso maintains that gestures are nec- essary to make words more em- phatic. "It makes our Italian look more like the real thing" supple- mented one member. A few min- utes later the class of six repeats "Sono una studentessa a Bryn Mawr," and runs through a morn- ing's activities beginning with "I wake up when the alarm clock sounds. I do not get up because I am always tired, etc." This daily Italian class has made startling progress. Having studied for a month without books, it is completely at home with the spok-> en word. Extra-class "dialogj�& are overheard which verge on lengthy conversations. "Ecco il uomo" one begins, and they're off. In every class a prepared "mono- logo" or "dialogo" is given. These are built around practical or dra- matic situations such as being lost in Rome or chancing to see "il re Vittorio Emmanuele" in a restau- rant. This versatile Italian class also sings . . . namely "Fra Martino" which may be recognized as "Frere Jacques" with the "ding, dang, Even grammar is occasionally il- lustrated with excerpts from op- era. The class's activities merely be- gin in Taylor. It plans to visit a famous Italian costume display in Germantown and make a tour of the Italian restaurants. It has al- ready had a successful beer party with Miss Lograsso's Haverford students. These soldiers are tak- ing their course preparatory to work with the Allied Military Gov- ernment in Italy. Although there are only six in this course of elementary Italian, they are not difficult to locate. They are always ready to break into their adopted tongue, whether on Taylor steps, at the Inn, or the village shops. These students are enthusiastic, one going so far as to add "ino" to her name tempor- arily. League Drive A surplus of $23.70 over the goal of $3800.00 was collected in the League Activities Drive this year. 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An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device that detects any life-threatening, rapid heartbeat. If such a heartbeat, called an arrhythmia , occurs, the ICD quickly sends an electrical shock to the heart to change the rhythm back to normal. This is called defibrillation.
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How We'd Fix It: The NHL
Sorry we're not sorry, Gary
By Sean McIndoe on August 8, 2013
Grantland has proposed fixes for topics as diverse as the MLB All-Star Game and Home Run Derby and Jersey Shore. This summer, the editors asked me to fix the entire NHL. I'm assuming this is because they felt topics like "the economy" and "the Middle East peace process" were too easy.
But I love a challenge, and so we're going to fix the NHL. Get comfortable — this could take a while.
First, though, a word about realism. On the one hand, in order for this to work, we have to pretend this whole exercise is taking place in a fantasyland where the people who run the NHL are actually open to fixing anything, as opposed to being an old boys' club too paralyzed by tradition and turf protection to make common-sense changes.
How You'd Fix It
Think the National Hockey League is broken? Then tell us how to fix it. E-mail us at email@example.com. Your suggestions might be published on this website, so please include your name and the city you live in.
But on the other, we have to be at least somewhat realistic here. So before we get to the fixes, let's lay out a few key ground rules:
• We can't fire Gary Bettman. Two reasons for this one. First, nobody wants to read a "How to Fix the NHL" post that's three words long. And more importantly, Bettman is under contract through at least 2015, and the owners seem to love him. He's not going anywhere until he decides he wants to, and we may as well just accept that.
• No contracting teams. Proposals for improving the league always seem to end up involving contraction, based on the assumption that there are too many teams in bad markets watering down the talent level. But again, we have to defer to reality here. There is no chance that a league as focused on growth as the NHL is suddenly going to reverse course and start dropping teams. If anything, we should expect another round of expansion soon.
• No new U.S. television deal. Whatever you think of NBC's coverage, it has a contract with the NHL through the 2021 season. That ship has sailed.
• No rewriting the key provisions of the last CBA. We just went through a major lockout to get a 10-year deal signed, so there's no sense pretending we can just tear it up and start all over. For example, no scrapping the salary cap or implementing sweeping new revenue sharing.
• No ideas that would drastically shrink revenues. For example, no shortening the season. And also, I won't be suggesting lower ticket prices. That would be nice, but it's not how supply and demand works.
We'll do this over three parts, starting with a few of the bigger changes that I suspect most people will generally agree with. You'll probably want to nitpick the ideas here and there, but I'm guessing you'll make it to the end of the first section without hating me. (That will come after Part II.)
Here we go …
Part I
How We'd Keep It the Same
Awkward draft photos. Awesome goalie masks. Crazy playoff overtime sessions and spectacular outdoor games. The NHL doesn't get it all wrong. Here are 15 things that should never change about professional hockey. — Katie Baker
Fix the standings and kill the loser point
The NHL standings are broken and everyone knows it. Awarding extra points for overtime games was ridiculous enough in an era when the league wanted to reduce ties, but it's downright nonsensical in a world where the shootout exists. The loser point1 deadens third periods by encouraging teams to play for overtime, makes the playoff races worse, and adds confusing columns to the standings that new fans are bound to struggle with. And — in what is almost certainly a feature and not a bug — it artificially inflates everyone's records so that all but a few teams can claim to be "over .500" every year.
It's an embarrassment. But here's the crucial problem: The current system is so dumb that every replacement you could come up with would be an improvement. And that actually makes it more difficult to create momentum for change, because it becomes impossible to get a consensus.
So let's start by just stipulating that literally anything would be better than what we have now. Once we've done that, we really can't go wrong. Everyone onboard? Cool.
Here's my proposal: We just scrap the loser point, and award two points for a win (regulation, overtime, and shootout) and none for a loss. That would allow us to focus just on win-loss records, while still tracking total points for historical comparison. Teams would record fewer points overall than during the loser-point years, but the standings would once again be comparable to the rest of the 80-plus-game era. And the concept of "finishing over .500" would go back to actually meaning something.
But if I can't sell you on that, I'll happily accept any other option you'd prefer. Going to a three-point system?2 Sure, that works, too. Bringing back ties? Not perfect, but still better than what we have now.
As long as the worth of every game goes back to being the same, we've made a huge improvement. And the standings would finally have some integrity again.
Longer overtime, fewer shootouts
Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar
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Look, the shootout is awful. It's a sideshow, a gimmicky skills competition that has no place deciding the results of key games in an actual professional sports league. Ideally, we'd be able to scrap the shootout altogether.
But unless we're willing to go back to having ties,3 we're kind of stuck with it. As much as we all love marathon sudden-death games in the playoffs, you can't have teams playing quadruple-overtime in November. And other non-shootout options, like continually reducing the number of players on the ice as overtime progresses, are every bit as gimmicky and ridiculous — maybe even more so.
So we'll grudgingly keep the shootout, but we'll try to have fewer of them. That means expanding overtime from five minutes to 10. Sure, the ice will be a mess by the end of OT, but in most buildings, the ice is a mess in the first period, too.
We've already scrapped the loser point, which should mean fewer games going to overtime. Between that and making the extra session longer, we should see a significant drop-off in the number of shootouts we're forced to sit through.
Lose the puck-over-the-glass penalty
We've covered this one before, but the puck-over-the-glass rule may be the dumbest in all of sports. It penalizes players for a play that's almost always a random accident, with no room for a referee's discretion or any common sense.
Instead, we'll treat pucks shot into the crowd the same way we treat icing: with a faceoff in the defensive zone without the opportunity for a line change. After all, the puck-over-the-glass and icing rules are both intended to punish a player for essentially the same thing (delaying the game by shooting the puck away while in his own zone). It only makes sense that they should carry the same penalty.
As an added bonus, because we've reduced the severity of the penalty involved, we can go ahead and get rid of the current rule's various exceptions and loopholes. No more ridiculous huddles between officials trying to figure out whether the puck clipped the glass or passed by the benches on the way out. If you shoot the puck out, the other team gets a change, and we line up and face it off.
Hybrid icing
Hybrid icing is a blend of the current rule (in which players race for the puck) and the no-touch version (in which the play is automatically blown dead).4 It gives the officials the discretion to blow the play dead unless they feel the trailing player has a realistic chance of touching the puck first, and is meant to eliminate the dangerous moments when the player who goes in first gets knocked off balance and slams into the boards at full speed. (Players have already recommended a test run for the new rule, which will take place next year.)
We're making this change for two reasons: It's safer, and (more importantly) we're sick of this debate and never want to hear about it ever again. We are looking in your direction, Don Cherry.
Fix the diving problem
Yes, it's been around forever. Yes, every team does it. Yes, we can try to make it sound more appealing by calling it "embellishment," which everyone apparently agreed to do at some point in the last two years.
But that doesn't mean diving isn't a problem. Any real hockey fan should hate it on principle, and it's a potential roadblock to drawing new fans. (If you don't believe me, ask a random American sports fan why they don't watch more soccer and see how long it takes for diving to come up. Have a stopwatch handy.)
Let's be honest: Diving is so common today because it works. It's a relatively low-risk/high-reward activity, so players who've been trained to look for any competitive edge are more than happy to do it.
We can't change player psychology, so instead we're going to flip the cost/benefit equation with a three-part fix:
• First, no more coincidental minor cop-outs, where the ref makes offsetting calls for both the dive and the original foul. From now on, a dive negates the original call.
• Second, referees will be told it's OK to make diving calls based on reputation. Oh, sure, that goes against the whole "impartiality" thing that we're supposed to expect. But referees already use reputation as a basis for calls — think about the final minutes of a blowout, when any tough guy who so much as blinks at an opponent gets a phantom misconduct. We're just applying the same concept to divers. You do it often enough to get a reputation, you're going to pay for it.
• And finally, we're going to encourage our valued partners in the TV world to change the way they talk about diving. No more "Well, gosh, he seemed like he went down a little easy there, har har" type of commentary. If somebody dives, say so. If an NFL wide receiver started comically flopping around to draw pass interference on every second play, every football broadcast for the next week would mock him mercilessly, and that's at least part of the reason you rarely see it.
Today, a player who dives is risking a slight chance at a diving call that will probably be offsetting, and that's about it. Under these changes, players risk a power play for the opposing team, embarrassment for themselves, and the potential for even more calls down the line. Suddenly, diving doesn't seem like such a no-brainer anymore.
And yes, all of this will result in some false positives. That's unfortunate, but it's far better than what we have now: a system so terrified of convicting one innocent diver that it lets everyone else embarrass the league by flopping around.
No more Bettman Cup presentations
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman
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OK, we said we couldn't fire Bettman altogether, but that doesn't mean we can't relieve him of some of his duties. Specifically, we're stripping him of his role as the annual presenter of the Stanley Cup. This is probably the easiest call on the entire list, given what an ongoing source of embarrassment Bettman's presentations have become.5
Instead of watching the commissioner get booed and pelted with garbage while he Tom Joneses his way through another awkward presentation, we're going to go with the idea that everyone else in the hockey world seems to want and let each team nominate a former player to do the honors.
As an added bonus, Bettman seems to genuinely enjoy handing out the Cup, and losing the job would probably make him sad. See? I told you you'd agree with most of the suggestions in this part.
Part II
In Part I, we eased into the job by looking at changes that many fans would probably agree with. Now we're diving into rougher waters. Here are a half-dozen more proposed rule changes, of which you will probably hate at least a couple.
Aim to increase offense back to early '90s levels
NHL offense spiked after the 2005 lockout thanks to new rules implemented after the work stoppage, but it has been making its way back to Dead Puck Era levels ever since. Not everyone thinks this is bad, and it's certainly true that there is such a thing as an exhilarating 1-0 game. There's also such a thing as a stiflingly dull 1-0 (or 2-0 or 2-1) game, and fans have had to sit through far too many of those in recent years.
We can argue over what sort of goals-per-game rate we should aim for. If the early 2000s were too low, maybe the run-and-gun 1980s were too high. Personally, I thought the early '90s were a good compromise. That would mean we need to find a way to add about a goal and a half per game (up to roughly 7.0 from the current 5.5).
I've probably lost a few of you already, because you hate offense and excitement and fun. (Hello, Jacques Martin!) The rest of you like the idea of more scoring but want to know how we're going to accomplish it, and that's where things get tricky. There are plenty of options, so let's start by figuring out what won't work:
• We're not going to increase the size of the ice surface. Even if it would work (debatable), it's just not a realistic option given how many new rinks have already been built with the old dimensions.
• We're not going to shrink the goalie equipment. Well, we are, actually (more on that later), but we're not going to expect it to help much. This has been the league's go-to solution to the scoring problem for years, yet it never seems to change anything.
• Most importantly, we're not just going to call more penalties, because we want our solution to go beyond simply having more power plays. That's the easy fix, and it actually accounts for most of the 2005 post-lockout increase. There's a certain appeal to calling the rulebook tighter, since it would theoretically create a more wide-open style of play, so there's a place for cracking down on certain infractions, and we'll get to that.
But it's not enough to rely on penalties to create added offense; when you do that, you just end up training hockey fans to sit back and wait for power plays. What we really want to do is increase scoring across all situations.
How do we do that? Meet me in the next section.
Make the nets bigger
Jimmy Howard
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Yes, the answer really would be this simple. And we're not even talking about a major change, like this terrible idea from a few years ago. Making the nets just an inch or two bigger all the way around would probably be enough to get us that extra goal or two per game. And the change would be subtle enough that even a die-hard fan would have trouble telling the difference.
The reality is that the amount of offense skaters can produce is directly tied to how much net they have available to shoot at, and these days they barely have any. There are plenty of reasons for that — bigger equipment is part of it, but the goalies themselves are bigger, too. And maybe more importantly, they're far better at cutting down angles than the previous generation. By adding a few inches all around, we can give some of that long-lost net back to the shooters.
And yes, I realize that many hockey fans hate the idea of bigger nets. I'm sure some of them are getting ready to yell at me about it on Twitter right now. Hockey fans are naturally averse to change, and after a few decades of trapezoids6 and glowing pucks and franchise relocations, maybe there's good reason for that.
But understand that allowing the goalies to get so much bigger while the net stays the same size is already a change, and the stats reflect that.
We're not asking for something new here — we just want to restore the old balance. A relatively small adjustment is all it would take.
Change the way we determine draft position
Bobby Ryan of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Jack Johnson of the Carolina Hurricanes
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The NHL determines draft position in roughly the same way as the NBA, MLB, and NFL do, which is to say it gives the best picks to teams that do the worst. There's a weighted lottery for the first-overall pick, but otherwise, the picks are handed out in reverse order of the final standings.
North American sports fans are so used to this approach that we barely question it. It appeals to our basic sense of fairness, since it feels like we should want to help bad teams catch up with the pack. Parity is a good thing, right?
And maybe it is. But the NHL has already bent over backward to ensure parity. We have a salary cap to prevent the good teams from stockpiling talent, and revenue sharing to help the smaller markets compete. Given how valuable high draft picks are in today's NHL, shouldn't we have a better distribution system than simply handing them over to the league's losers?
Let's be honest. These days, there are only two reasons an NHL team might finish dead last: tanking and outright incompetence. Neither one of those should be rewarded. Last month, a columnist in the NHL's biggest market criticized its team for not losing enough. That sentence should be ludicrous, but under the current system, he was absolutely right. It's the same logic that has given rise to fan slogans like "Fail for Nail" and "Stop Winnin' for MacKinnon." The NHL has taught its fans to root for failure. And it's why the current system has to change.
So we're going to institute Adam Gold's idea, presented at the 2012 Sloan Conference, which rewards winning while also ensuring that the league's worst teams aren't left behind.7
Here's how it works: The top draft positions will be awarded based on points earned after playoff elimination. Once a team is officially out of the playoff race, it starts the clock on amassing points toward its draft position. Bad teams still get an advantage (because they're eliminated earlier), but now the emphasis is on winning, not just on riding out the string. It's relatively simple, and it's brilliant.
You're telling me you wouldn't be excited the day the "no. 1 overall pick points" column appeared in the standings? If we were lucky, we could even have late-season showdowns for the top picks. And fans watching those games would actually be cheering for their own teams to win. Imagine that.
The only downside to the system that I can see is it's slightly more complicated and would take some getting used to. But if fans could figure out OTL and ROW, I'm pretty sure they can handle this. And a little bit of early confusion will be more than worth it in exchange for the new burst of late-season excitement.
Redefine late hits
The NHL rulebook states that an interference penalty should be called on any late hit against a player who has lost possession of the puck. But do you know how many seconds is considered late?
It's a trick question, because the rulebook doesn't actually say. Ask around, and different fans will give you different answers. Maybe it's one steamboat, maybe it's three. Often, the answer depends on whether that fan's favorite team is the one doing the hitting.
That's clearly a gap in the rules, and we could fix it by making it more specific. But instead, we're going to rewrite it completely, by asking whether the whole concept of a legal late hit even makes sense. Why is it that a hit that arrives a fraction of a second ahead of the puck is dirty, but one that comes two seconds after the puck is gone is considered OK?
So here's the new rule: Any hit that is initiated after the puck is gone is a late hit. And "initiating" a hit will mean actually starting to throw it, not just gliding toward a guy who's watching his pass. The onus will be on the hitter to avoid contact with a player who no longer has the puck, and unless that's impossible, the hit will be a penalty.
This isn't a new idea. Grantland contributor Ken Dryden has mentioned it, and the NFL treats hits on quarterbacks in a similar way. Hockey still allows these hits because that's the way it has always been. It's time to change that.
Keep the instigator rule, but tweak it
Calls for the instigator rule to be abolished are a frequent feature of these sorts of debates. Let the players police themselves, the thinking goes, and you can finally get rid of the rats who are taking over the sport.
There are two problems with this argument. One is that we had plenty of rats in the pre-instigator days, too. And the second is that the instigator doesn't prevent anyone from policing anything. It just adds a minor penalty for doing so.
The instigator rule basically says If you randomly grab a guy and start wailing on him, you're going to get an extra two minutes. I like fighting as much as anyone, but that seems pretty reasonable to me. So we're keeping the instigator rule. With a few tweaks …
First, let's clarify how it should be called, because right now there's too much emphasis on whose gloves hit the ice first. If a player follows an opponent up the ice, tugging his jersey and ignoring the puck, that player should get an instigator penalty even if he doesn't drop his mitts until the other guy finally agrees. The same goes for players who rush over to engage after a hit. And by the same token, if two players decide they want to go, don't penalize one guy just because he gets his gloves off quicker.
(By the way, what I've just described is basically how the rule is already written. It just doesn't seem to be called that way these days. We're going to ask the refs to change that.)
We're also going to lose the extra minor for a player who instigates while wearing a shield. The idea made some sense at the time,8 but now we want to encourage players to wear facial protection, so it has to go.
Finally, we'll do away with the automatic suspension for players who instigate fights in the final five minutes of a game. For one thing, it would save the league the embarrassment of constantly rescinding the penalty every time it's called. Beyond that, let's be realistic: A little score-settling at the end of a blowout is pretty much the only reason to stay tuned in. (It goes without saying that we'll still suspend players who go overboard.)
Oh, and speaking of fighting [zips up flame-retardant suit], we're going to make one more change …
Keep fighting, but eliminate the enforcers
Matt Kassian #28 of the Ottawa Senators and Colton Orr #28 of the Toronto Maple Leafs
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The role of fighting in hockey has been debated for generations, and we won't spend much time revisiting that battle here. Chances are you already have a strong opinion on the subject one way or the other, and nothing I say is likely to change your mind.
But here's what we do know: This debate has been going on for decades, and the NHL has always resisted calls to ban fighting. Clearly, the league believes that fighting is a crucial part of the sport (or, more likely, a crucial part of the sport's entertainment value), and we can assume they have plenty of fan surveys and market research that backs that up. So based on our "realism" clause, proposing a total ban on fighting is out.
That said, it's impossible to ignore new research into the damage fighting can do, both physically and psychologically. So we're going to keep fighting, but introduce a new rule that will effectively eliminate the meaningless ones, along with players who don't serve any other purpose.
Here's how we'll do it: We'll institute a series of escalating suspensions for players who incur more than 10 fighting majors in a season. Your 11th fight of the season results in a two-game suspension. The 12th gets you four, and so on.
The rule won't have any impact on players like Milan Lucic or Wayne Simmonds or Jarome Iginla, all of whom drop the gloves frequently but have never recorded more than 10 fighting majors in a season. In fact, it wouldn't affect many players at all — only 18 players had more than 10 fights in 2011-12 (the most recent 82-game season), and only 24 would have been on pace for that many in the lockout-shortened 2013.
(By the way, we obviously don't want to see star players getting targeted for fights in an attempt to get them suspended, so we won't count fights in which the opponent earns an instigator.)
Would you be willing to give a guy like Colton Orr a million bucks and a roster spot to punch faces if you knew he'd be limited to doing it only every couple of weeks or would face spending the second half of the season in the press box? You might if you were the Toronto Maple Leafs, but most teams wouldn't.
This rule would effectively eliminate enforcers and significantly reduce fighting, while still keeping it as an occasional and relatively spontaneous part of the game — but only when it meant something.
Oh, and if that ends up being the first step to ultimately eliminating fighting entirely … well, we'll just pretend that was an unintended consequence.
Part III
We'll finish with a little bit of cleanup and one last batch of smaller changes. None of these would change the world, but each would improve the NHL product. And we'll close with explanations of a few possibilities you may have been expecting to see that didn't make the cut.
Crossover final
Niklas Hjalmarsson #4 of the Chicago Blackhawks
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While the league made significant changes to its conference alignment, it kept one aspect that has been in place for decades: a Stanley Cup final between the winners of the Western and Eastern conferences.
But why? The NHL isn't a merged entity like MLB or the NFL, where there's at least some historical reason for dividing the sport in half. Hockey's conferences are just geographical. So why not be willing to shake things up a bit for the final?
Here's what we'll do: Once we're down to a final four, we'll reseed and play no. 1 vs. no. 4 and no. 2 vs. no. 3. If those matchups end up being inter-conference, that's fine. While it wouldn't happen all the time, it would open up the possibility of having two teams from the same conference face each other in the final.
That means we could have a Stanley Cup final of Boston vs. Montreal, or Vancouver vs. Chicago, or Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia. Fill in your favorite rivalry and we might get to see it play out with a championship on the line.
Sure, we could also get stuck with bad matchups, but we get stuck with those now. The only real downside to a crossover final is that the lack of a guaranteed Eastern team could hurt TV ratings when we wind up with two Western finalists. But it's not like that would result in the games being played late at night, since we already force West Coast teams to play on an East Coast schedule.
I don't know about you, but I'm willing to risk the occasional Columbus-Dallas matchup if it means we might someday see Toronto vs. Montreal. Let's roll the dice.
Continue to enforce the rules against obstruction
The NHL took a major step in this area after the 2005 lockout, making obstruction fouls a point of emphasis and undoing much of the damage done by decades of letting the game turn into a rodeo.9 But there's been some sense of a relapse in recent years, especially at playoff time, so we're going to put a halt to that.
Don't call it a crackdown — more like a gentle reminder to officials to call the rulebook, consistently, in all situations. Oh, and speaking of the refs …
Get rid of the referee microphones
They don't work. They've never worked. And more importantly, having a referee turn and dramatically point to center ice on a disputed goal was way more fun than listening to him stumble through a contrived explanation.
Place a moratorium on redesigned logos/jerseys
Former Dallas Stars Mike Modano
AP Photo/LM Otero
Is it too much to ask that NHL teams pick a uniform design and actually stick with it for, let's say, five years before redesigning? Not everyone wants to shell out for a new jersey every year or two because some marketing consultant convinced you to replace your angry animal holding a hockey stick with a slightly angrier animal holding a hockey stick.
You get a home jersey, an away jersey, and one (one!) alternate jersey for special occasions. And no more changing your mind about which is which every year. You're trying to build a brand here, so pick something and stick with it. Some of you are getting downright embarrassing with this stuff.
It's important that we stop messing with jerseys. Um, as soon as we're done making this next change …
Go back to home whites
They just look better. No, I have no evidence to support this claim. Yes, it's almost completely based on my preference for what I grew up with. What can I tell you, I'm old and cranky and this is my column, so home whites it is.
More home-and-homes
The NHL has gone back to a four-division format, with teams grouped according to geographic location. (Kind of.) It has also moved back to division-based playoff seeding. Predictably, this is all being sold as a way to turn up the heat on rivalries.
In short, we're largely back to where we were 20 or 30 years ago. And that's great, because that's when many of the league's greatest rivalries were at their most intense. But if we're going to try to rekindle old-school divisional rivalries, then we're going to have to bring back old-school home-and-homes.
That's right, we're going to tell the schedule-maker to give us more back-to-back games between division rivals. And here's the key — those back-to-back games are going to be on back-to-back nights. No more of this "two random days off between games" nonsense. You play a game in one city, you get on a plane, and you play the next night in the other city. The quick turnaround should keep the bad blood flowing, and the travel will make the players tired and cranky.
The players may hate it, but that's fine. A real rivalry needs a bit of hatred sprinkled in.
Smaller goalie equipment
The NHL has tried to regulate goalie equipment for years in an effort to increase scoring, and is promising another crackdown this year. It never seems to help. Luckily, we already fixed the scoring issue by making the nets bigger, so we don't have to go overboard on the equipment.
We'll still reduce it so that Corey Crawford's leg pads don't reach his armpits, but we don't have to rely on the changes to have much impact.
Close the salary floor loopholes
You could make a strong argument for scrapping the salary floor altogether (or at least drastically lowering it), since the escrow system guarantees that low-spending teams can't take money out of the players' pockets. But we said we wouldn't make drastic changes to the CBA, so the floor stays.
But we are going to close a few of the loopholes that make a mockery out of it, like teams trading for inactive players just to take a cap hit (while not spending any actual dollars). No more using buyout hits to get to the floor, either.10
You sign a contract, you disclose the terms
Even in the age of instant information and CapGeek, most NHL teams still insist on announcing new signings with the dreaded addendum "As per club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed."
Stop doing that, NHL teams. As per fan policy, we hate it. So we're going to mandate that every announcement of a new player contract include all relevant information. And yes, that includes no-trade clause details.
No more "upper/lower body" injuries
Ideally, this would mean we'd force teams to get specific on injuries. But we've been told repeatedly that the games would descend into anarchy if we did that, with players immediately targeting injured players like lions descending on a hobbled gazelle. Never mind that many injuries are fairly obvious and the targeting doesn't seem to happen. NHL teams do not want to tell you what's wrong with that guy over there with the bone sticking out of his arm. It's top secret.
So instead, let's just drop the upper/lower distinction altogether. Specifying upper or lower body doesn't add any clarity for fans, and it just reminds us that the NHL can't be bothered to give fans the same information that other leagues do. If a guy's injured, just say he's injured and move on.
Fewer outdoor games
The Winter Classic is cool. An occasional Heritage Classic (the Canadian version) is fine. Six outdoor games in one year is ridiculous overkill. This is why you can't have nice things, NHL.
So we're limiting outdoor games to two — one in the U.S., one in Canada. These games mean something today; let's make sure it still feels that way in a few years.
And finally, here's a quick look at some of the things you may have expected to see on this list that we didn't end up changing at all.
Banning all hits to the head — I'd love to see a plausible way to make this happen, but I can't come up with one. A blanket ban that puts all the onus on the defender just doesn't seem workable given how easily a last-second shift by the puck carrier can change a clean hit into a head shot.
Coach's challenge — Neat idea, virtually impossible to implement. There are just too many "what ifs" involved to make it worthwhile, given that the sort of missed calls most people point to when the subject comes up are actually very rare.
Eliminating staged fights — Everyone wants to eliminate staged fights, but nobody seems to know exactly what that means. They usually point to scraps that happen right off of a faceoff, but those are often some of the most meaningful fights of all. Besides, if you tell players they can't fight after a faceoff, they'll just wait a few seconds. And that would look silly.
What people really want is to eliminate pointless fights that serve no purpose beyond padding PIM totals. And we've already done that by more or less eliminating enforcers. So staged fights can stay.
Fixing the All-Star Game — The NHL All-Star Game is terrible. It's also beyond fixing. We're going to just accept that, do our best to ignore it, and hope that someday it goes away.
Overhaul the suspension system — It doesn't work. Do you know what else won't work? Every other possible system. The fact is, we'll never get everyone to agree on how league discipline should work because nobody actually wants it to work, at least when it applies to their own guys. So we're going to have to just shrug and accept that everyone will complain about this until the end of time.
So there you have it. A revamped NHL with more scoring, less diving, and fewer shootouts. We changed the rules on late hits and icing, and we've reduced (but not eliminated) fighting. Teams can no longer snooze through regulation to earn a bonus point, and bad teams will have to win to earn the top draft pick.
If it all goes according to plan, we'll be left with a sport that's both safer and more exciting. We'll have made it easier to attract new fans, but without any radical changes that would make the game unrecognizable to diehards.
Oh, and we made Gary Bettman sad. If you don't agree with anything else we did, that should at least count for something.


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Murray is accused of killing the superstar on June 25, 2009, by giving him propofol, a powerful anesthetic he had been administering to the singer the past two months to help Jackson sleep.
District Attorney David Walgren depicted Murray in his opening statement as a reckless medical professional who was only interested in money and fame.
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