re sad day for hockey in article pq finn b abyss west sun com dvb ick david van beveren writes no no no since all the penalties fall into three classes there should only be three penalties foul any illegal contact with the other player or his stick with your body or stick if you get you are out for the game unsportsmanlike contact an intentional foul this inlcludes all the current flavours of roughing fighting and boarding if you get two you are thrown out of the game and fined technical foul bad mouthing the ref by player or coach penalty shot is awarded two and you are thrown out of the game besides the penalty shot for one technical if the team gets penalties in a period the opposing team gets a penalty shot for every additional one until the end of the period the victim gets two shots if he she was in the act of shooting when the foul ocured these new rule changes are great however i think that your rules are much too complicated how will the normal average fan be able to count how many fouls a player has and then we would even have to remember the names of the players in order to determine who drew the foul and of course there will have to be new sub positions like the power center who just sits in the slot until the blue of course puck comes near him and the shooting defenseman and the point defenseman finally we ll be able to keep stats on the best and the worst penalty shot takers since almost everyone on the ice will be getting fouled we ll be able to see ulf samuellson sp and tie domi miss penalty shots like crazy keith keller let s go rangers let s go quakers kkeller mail sas upenn edu ivy league champs next time you go over my head i ll have yours on a platter cmdr benjamin sisko
