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Out of Town Notebook: 5 New Year’s Resolutions for the NHL

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Out of Town Notebook: 5 New Year’s Resolutions for the NHL

In the spirit of the New Year, here are five resolutions the NHL should make for 2012: 1. Abandon the “game is too fast” narrative As the NHL concussion issue has grown, so too has the argument that the game is currently too fast. According to Ex-NHL’ers (most recently Eric Lindros) and several general managers (Carolina’s Jim Rutherford is the most vocal at the moment), putting the red line back in would slow the game down and reduce the number of concussions taking place on ice. This, naturally, is complete poppycock and a classic case of conservative, backward NHL thinking....

Out of Town Notebook: Concussions, Kings and Darryl Sutter

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Out of Town Notebook: Concussions, Kings and Darryl Sutter

Things that make one wonder on a Tuesday:  The Kings are in Trouble  Has Dean Lombardi lost his mind?  According to reports, the Los Angeles Kings are looking at Darryl Sutter as their next coach.  Because the Lombardi-Sutter connection won championships in San Jose, right?  Look, it’s not like the problem with the Kings isn’t well-known. They aren’t scoring enough goals (last in the league). Their point-producers, outside of Anze Kopitar, are all under-performing.  How Sutter – a notorious “defense-first, -second and –third” coach – could be seen as the right person to create scoring is a mystery.    Not...

Out of Town Notebook: A Day of Hockey Tragedies

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Out of Town Notebook: A Day of Hockey Tragedies

In January I wrote that Russian hockey, by forcing domestic players into the KHL, was ensuring the the league could one day approach, if not equal and surpass, the talent level found in the NHL. Today’s tragic plane crash underscores how that will probably never happen. In his book “King of Russia: A Year in the Russian Superleague,” Dave King talks at length in about the travels of KHL teams – the tough mining towns, the surrounding poverty and the perilous flights teams took between games. It’s a subject matter he’s commented on again in the wake of the accident. There’s lots of...

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