If the world's most screwed-up professional sports league ever figures out how to play another game, it may not be the game many of us recognize. The NHL has been "experimenting" with essentially elimininating the Blue Lines at an ice rink in the Toronto area.
For the record, the National Football League enacted the Bronko Nagurski rule in 1933 which allowed a forward pass from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The jury is still out on whether that was a good idea for pro football. Maybe hockey should wait a little longer to see whether the forward pass and higher scoring games are just a fad.
The NHL players and owners meet again monday. They should invite the remaining fans, too, and take the twenty or so of them out to dinner. It would be a nice gesture.
