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Interesting discussion.
I heard the other day that there are no rules re: the size of goalies equipment. Stupid. It's surprising that it hasn't got worse. Supposedly the blocker and leg pads are fully 4 inches wider than just four years ago. Crazy. And I agree, this is what a commissioner is for. Just make a freakin' rule. How hard is that?
I think Bettman is out for his own glory and somehow he equates expansion with that. Hard for me to argue against expansion though 'cause the Lightning are my team.
I compare it to expanding baseball into Canada. Baseball when it's snowing? WTF? I guess like anything, it's what you are used to.
BTW, have you seen that Vegas now has the Lightning as the favorites to win the Cup? 5-2 odds. I'm certainly not counting my chickens but Detroit and the Leafs are old, we own Philly, the Av's don't seem to be in sync this year. San Jose is a lot like us I think. Good young guys with a few veterans mixed in.
People aren't giving us much credit but we have the (soon to be) MVP of the league (St.Louis), excellent depth (Lecavalier, Stillman, Richards, Modin, Kubina), veterans (Andreychuk, Sydor) and a couple of enforcers (Roy, Dingman). Not to mention the 'Bulin Wall and an excellent coach who seems to be making all the right moves. Exciting times around here.
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