Adam Proteau at The Hockey News credits Brendan Shanahan for ridding the NHL of clutching and grabbing..."Actually, you don’t have to wonder at all. Without Shanahan’s courage, the NHL still would continue to give its greatest rewards to participants who preferred to lodge their sticks firmly in their opponents’ mid-sections and water-ski behind them up and down the ice; the league would remain a workplace in which endless cycling of the puck and the curtailing of skill mattered more than goals and those who could score them; and professional hockey would continue to fall further off the radar of the average sports fan."
...while the NHL is still far from being the back and forth style from the 70s & 80s I feel the game is headed in the right direction.
...one thing Bettman needs to sure up is the refereeing on obstruction calls. Some of the calls are brutal and kill the flow of the game.
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