The Sinden System, anyone?

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The Sinden System? Has the old coot lost his marbles?

Okay, maybe he thinks desperate times may call for desperate measures.

Anyhow....To summarize:

Larger Nets - a few inches wider, and taller. i.e think Fran Healy standing
in a garage doorway :-)

Smaller Goalie Equipment - Pads two inches smaller, and form fitting
jerseys.

Limited Offsides/No icing - "...removing the centre red line and the
blue-lines and putting in thin lines a few feet above the faceoff circles
at each end of the ice and allowing passes to go anywhere on the ice,
without creating an offside or icing infraction, once the player with the
puck reaches the pass line in his zone." (TSN)

"Could you imagine Wayne (Gretzky) and Mario (Lemieux) playing that kind of
game?" (Glenn) Sather posed. "They'd have a field day."

Actually, this sounds kinda like some old pond-hockey rules from my youth.

Let's put this into a 'Habs' perspective?

What about guys like Koivu? Kovalenko? and even perhaps Souray?  Something
tells me we would finally have a 50-goal-scorer.  In this regard, I think
many European players who play a more 'open/skating/puck handling' style
would benefit more. Players that subscribe to the "Cherry-esque
finish-your-check/force-them-to-the-boards" school of play would become a
rarity.

On the flip-side.... poor Theo.  And to think the Habs traded away Garon,
all 6-plus feet of him.  Smaller pads would likely lead to a commodity
market on overweight goal-tenders, with excess anatomical padding.  Any
Sumo's out there with a quick hand?

I profess to be a purist in most regards, but agree that a tweak here/there
could open the game up. No-touch icing... sure, why not. Allowing two-line
passing? Okay.  Even removing the red line sounds plausible... if only to
make passing up the ice easier.  As I said tho, icing should be included.
If one team wanted to park a guy in front of the net, go ahead, spread'em
out as much as you can.

"But wait.." you say, " How can you have icing, without a red-line?"

Divide the ice into thirds.  A pass from the defensive third, to the
attacking third on the far end would be icing if it goes behind the goal
without being touched. If the pass is made from within the neutral third...
no icing.

Think of the strategies that might come up late in the game, and your team
is down a goal.  Pull your goalie, and park your additional man at the far
end?

jayp

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