Proof positive (not that more was needed) that the NHL is being run by hockey players.
"It's an experiment, let's leave it at that," Sabres managing partner Larry Quinn said Tuesday while watching Rochester practice.Quinn said the test came after NHL officials discussed whether changing the ice color from white would enhance how the game is viewed by fans in arenas and on television.
The Sabres offered to try it and, after some experimentation, settled on painting the sheet in what they call "electric powder blue." To offset the new colored surface, arena officials decided
to make the blue lines fluorescent orange, which is also the color used for the faceoff circles.
The center line, normally red, is now dark blue.
Reports that the NHL is also considering enhancing team uniforms with coloured sequins remain unconfirmed.
There's only one question left if the new colors ever came into
effect: what would you call a defenseman?"Guess, I'd become an orange-liner," Jeff Jillson said.
Or, in the immortal words of Guy Macon* just "a primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid".
just think violet and green...
That seems kind of like Miami Vice on ice.
yep, just keep moving those deck chairs around, maybe reupholster them in something nice and distractingly colorful.
Wonder why collegiate hockey hasn't made a larger appearance this year?
I suppose that it didn't occur to any of them that unless they actually play the games, no one will be watching regardless of the color of the ice.
more proof of the decline of western civilization. lets hope this doesn't reach the level of imbecility exhibited by fox sports 10 years ago when they tried to add halucinatory jet streams to pucks. all in a vain effort to attract people whose closest experience with ice is at the bottom of their bourbon glass.
to add to the deck chair comment... get rid of the neutral zone trap, drop the fucking music between plays and expand the ice surface to international size. that gets rid of the boring clutch and grab play that restricts the fastest and most skilled players. oh yeah, one more thing. there should be a litmus test on which cities get nhl franchises and its this... can you play pond hockey in january within a 100 kilometers of your arena? no? sorry bubba, no team for you. winnipeg gets the jets back.