{"id":684,"date":"2004-02-13T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2018-08-10T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:30:57","slug":"684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/13\/684\/","title":{"rendered":"A Voice of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Meatriarchy Guy, who&#8217;s Canadian (not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that), has <a href=\"http:\/\/meatriarchy.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_02_08_meatriarchy_archive.html#107659240185887663\" target=\"new\">some ideas about how to improve hockey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1 Eliminate the two line pass offside. This really is the only change you have to make.<br \/>\n2 On a penalty kill the short-handed team can no longer ice the puck.<br \/>\n3 A player has to serve the full two minute penalty even if his team is scored upon.<br \/>\n4 Move the nets back to their original location (they are talking about doing this)<br \/>\n5 Impose a weight tax on teams so that they pay extra if they draft big dumb slow players &#8211; the Leafs gave up a perfectly good defensemen Jason Smith and tried to turn oversized Chris McAllister into an NHL player. The only thing he had going for him was size &#8211; a trait that NHL GM&#8217;s are over enamored with and in the end he failed miserably. Bring in a weight tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some good ideas, but let&#8217;s not forget the prospect of enlarging the ice surface.<\/p>\n<p>Fast skaters and skill players can go around the hookers, and hockey team owners get to hold up their cities for even newer arenas.  <i>Win-win!<\/i>  Unless you&#8217;re a Canadian city and the Americans are about to get serious about the dollar&#8217;s exchange rate again, bit who cares about the Canadians, eh?  What do they know about <i><b>NHL<\/b><\/i> hockey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meatriarchy Guy, who&#8217;s Canadian (not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that), has some ideas about how to improve hockey: 1 Eliminate the two line pass offside. This really is the only change you have to make. 2 On a penalty kill the short-handed team can no longer ice the puck. 3 A player has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22542,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/22542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}