they have tried so many rules changes to try and get scoring back up....didnt help. As long as the teams are coached to play defensively, its not gonna change anything. Not to mention the ridiculous padding the goalies wear now...lol..just get some 6’5” guy..put giant pads on him, and he doesn’t even have to “play” the position...just stand there and let the shots hit him. Almost all scoring is on power plays now...heck, even the great Canadian announcers are gone.
LOL, I look at the equipment I started out with as a goalie, and it was so...bad...but I didn’t have any choice. I bought the equipment myself, and just didn’t have the money, so I got these nasty shoulder and arm pads that could have been made from quilted shipping blankets, there were no hard pads anywhere in it.
And the goalie pads were old, condensed, and leather. Even though I put stuff on to try to repel the water, by the end of some games, it was like having a menopausic woman on each leg after she ate a bag of salty potato chips and drank a couple of gallons of water!
Once I started earning money, I got some decent equipment, and then I felt pretty brave after that. Real goalie headgear, real goalie skates. Heh, it was sick what I was wearing before. Some guys really teed off on me.