i think you're grossly overstating the case. It's different
Posted on: April 19, 2019 at 13:10:29 CT
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not solely because the rules are enforced differently. It's different because the players play with vastly more intensity and a much higher % of pucks are contested.
You see more contact, less space and your eye thinks it's all outside the rules. Mainly, it isn't.
Building a team for the reg season and for they playoffs can be a different thing, but not really because tripping, boarding and cross-checking aren't called. Those are called.
there's just less willingness for a team like Columbus to give a team like Tampa free space to let their smaller forwards operate.