The concept of increasing the size of nets in the NHL to make scoring goals easier is divisive.
Some love the idea. Some loath it. Others want to decrease the size of goalie equipment as a compromise.
Colorado Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy is one of the best netminders to ever play the game, but he wouldn’t be averse to making the nets bigger.
“I think it’s a good idea,” Roy told ESPN Thursday. “I think it will help the scoring. I would think about getting the goal posts a little bit smaller [which] will make a huge difference, and if every time it hit the post or crossbar it goes in, it’s already a lot of goals.”
Goals are down in the NHL this season and various ways to increase scoring were discussed this week at the GM meetings in Toronto.
NHL senior executive VP and director of hockey operations Colin Campbell confirmed to Prime Time Sports Wednesday that the NHL is looking to reduce the size of goalie equipment.
“We are making an attempt this year, usually we make that attempt every year, and the manufacturers tell us they can’t do it in time after our March/June meetings,” he said. “So this year we did it faster and said, ‘OK you got a year and a half to do it.'”