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Let rules police NHL? What a concept

By Scott Burnside
ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

NAPLES, Fla. -- The NHL may be the only professional sports league that consistently turns to its own rulebook to significantly change its product. It did so coming out of the lockout when, after many unfulfilled promises to clean up hooking and obstruction and slashing, the NHL actually got down to business and introduced a new standard of calling penalties: in essence, for the first time, calling fouls that were already in the books. The result has been nothing less than stunning. No Qui ...

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