re: #148 darthstar

Okay…moving on to basketball, since the NBA is also in the finals of their season. What if we changed the rules and gave NBA players the level of contact NHL players enjoy before calling a foul, and limit NHL to the NBA rules for fouls? We’d have basketball games that ended 2-0 and hockey games with 30+ points by each team.

If you really wanted to drop scoring in basketball you could do two things:
1. Allow all defenses including zones
2. Go back to the high-school and rule book definitions of traveling, double-dribble, and carry - and enforce it that way. None of this 3-steps in order to make a jam crap.

The real major difference between the sports beyond the surface played on is that one has a dedicated goal tender.