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LinkSpeak: How To Fix Hockey

As any fan, pundit, or player could tell you, ice hockey is a fundamentally broken sport. As complexity has been added to the system over the years the outputs of the sport (e.g. goals, lockouts, and animated .gifs) have become uncoupled from the traditional inputs (e.g. passion, TV contract revenue, lockouts, and French Canadians). By this time, everyone is aware that goal scoring has been on an overall decline since the 2005 lockout that dramatically increased goal scoring through the radical concept of confusing the hell out of the referees thereby increasing the number of power plays per game.