Slashing crackdown, infusion of youth boost NHL scoring
(WorldNews Health)

The nets aren`t bigger, the goaltenders aren`t smaller and yet scoring is up significantly around the NHL. Through the first two months of the season, goals are up more than 12 percent from the same time a year ago, including a whopping 14 percent increase on the power play and a 38 percent spike in short-handed goals. `That`s what the league wanted,` San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc Edouard-Vlasic said. `The league has done everything in their power to make there more goals out there, and that`s exactly what`s going on.` The uptick can be credited to a concerted crackdown on slashing by issuing more penalties and a league-wide move toward younger and more skilled players. The current pace of...