Every season they start so high, and make the rules this way, and then they slow, slow, and in the playoffs.” “But I feel - this is just my opinion - if you want to add more scoring, if they call penalties more like they did in the beginning of the season, they get more scoring. If they take the blue line away, OK, what can we do, how can we stretch the limits, what can we do to have an edge to use that rule and compete? ![]() If they put the red line, we will adjust, the coaches will adjust. “We tried this way with the red line, and they take the red line away, and we trying to see what will work. “It’s like we adjust and evolve,” Fedotenko says. And even if there was an impetus to open the game up again, it would just start another race downwards. The Rangers throw body after body in front of the net, and the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia outlier aside, the result is a game that makes scoring very, very hard. But in some ways it is as if the neutral zone trap has just backed up 40 feet, and redeployed. The Kings skate with the puck, the Devils forecheck, Phoenix plays tight. “Going” seems to be a worrying word there. You look at the puck possession teams, to me, it’s kind of going - I’ll just leave it at that.” ![]() The game is a long pass, forecheck, defend, another long pass, forecheck and defend, and … I’d better just leave it at that. You look at the puck possession teams, they’re out. “I think the red line has something to do with it. “See, I think they need to put the red line back in,” said Rangers coach John Tortorella, who has gone from “safe is death” in Tampa to a high priest of shot-blocking with New York. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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