Hear, hear!
Netminders Blog – Boston.com

I’m tired of getting e-mails from hard core, or formerly hard-core fans, complaining about the game. Why does the NHL have this disease, it’s like the League suffers from low self-esteem: what can we change next, we’ve gotta make the nets bigger, we’ve gotta get more scoring, we’ve gotta this, we’ve gotta that. When I was a kid, nothing changed. The game was great, I loved it, I grew to love it more than anything else in the world. The only thing that occasionally changed was the number of teams in the League. Otherwise, nothing else really changed. The game was as consistent as the Canadiens power play. Leave the darn thing alone for awhile. The only change I’d make … lose the instigator rule.

Rob’s been doing a great job, both on Rubber Biscuit and the Bear Tracks blog.

And I think that one change (the number of teams in the league) wasn’t necessarily a good thing. Bring back the Original 6! 😉