Here's the thing about the Flyers-Lightning game last night. It's funny. It's gamesmanship. It's one coach trying to make the other look like a dick. It's the players on Philadelphia mocking the players on Tampa Bay - and berating them from the bench. It's just something beyond the norm of a Wednesday night in Tampa in November, even though it wasn't particularly good hockey.
In case you missed it, here it is. Well, part of it:
On TV coverage tonight, and today, and last night, there's a lot of debate about "what the League needs to do about this Major Problem!" Well, I'll tell you.
We don't need to make rule changes every time something happens in the league that isn't perfect. We don't need to call emergency GM meetings or Board of Governors meetings. We don't need to panic when someone in the NHL says something nasty about someone else in the NHL, or makes them look silly, or exploits a rule a little bit.
We do need to let the players play. We do need to let the game evolve and not make reactionary decisions every time something falls outside of the conservative monotony that the NHL wants to force upon us. We do need to let the people involved - the coaches and especially the players - have a little personality, a little life. Embrace the different... see what happens.
Let's just let things play out a little more.
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