Welcome to the inaugural Carnival of the NHL. Unlike yesterday's trip through the Basketball side of the Blogosphere, I'm not a tourist when it comes to my fellow hockey bloggers. I'm happy I can introduce you to some of them, as they soldier on in following a sport in idefinite deep-freeze.
As you might suspect these days, there are plenty of theories as to why the game continues to suffer. Steve Ovadia at Puck Update is pointing to the rise of linebacker-sized players as part of the problem:
The NHL can try and tweak the rules to generate a false sense of excitement and offense, but until they address the fact that the game has become dominated by meaty monsters who can score thirty goals a season just by standing in front of the net and letting the puck deflect off of them, they're never going to get any fans back. Until someone admits that the chasm between Wayne Gretzky and Eric Lindros (no offense to Lindros, whom I truly think is great) was a million conceptual miles
Good list, Eric. I’ll have to add a couple of those to our links.