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I agree with the shortened season, and the play-offs ending earlier, but I'd like to up it a notch and drop a few teams so the quality of players who make it to the NHL goes back to where it once was.
There are a lot of players in the league now who if this was pre expansion wouldn't have had a hope in hell of making it anywhere in the NHL. The talent has been so watered down in the last few years, I find myself watching games going "how the hell did he make it here?"
There's no fighting in the Olympics, Canada Cup, World Championships because the IIHF and the IOC don't allow fighting in their tournaments, remember the World Jr. Championship back in 1987 when the Canadians and the Russians had their bench brawl? Both teams got DQ'd for that little dance. So that's why there is no fighting in the Olympics, Canada Cup, or the Worlds. As for the play-offs, the referee's always 'put the whistle away' a little more when the post season comes around, and let the guys away with almost murder most times, so they get the guy back with another cheap shot rather than a fight.
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