pretty good write up today from sherwood- sportswagers.ca
Alot of u6 lines coming?
"The NHL continues to instill new rules and changes in an attempt to produce more goals. More goals mean more excitement, which turns into more U.S. fans, which turns into more money. It’s always about money.
The shallower nets will expand "Gretzky's office", that space behind the net where playmakers feast. As the new frame doesn't jut out so much, the path from post to post from behind the net will be shorter. There's another difference that could alter scoring, too. The corners where the goalposts meet the crossbar are significantly closer to being a 90-degree angle now than with the previous goal, which had more a curve than an abrupt angle. It is not a huge change.
The goal-mouth opening, as measured from the inside of the pipes, remains the same: 6 feet wide by 4 feet high, or 24 square feet. But the new shape is certainly more rectangular than before, and it will be interesting to see what happens to pucks that used to ring off the corners of the old nets. Perhaps now they ring the pipe and score, or at least carom into the slot rather than up and out of play. Considering how many goals are scored off scrambles and rebounds instead of clean shots or fancy set-ups, it will make a difference.
These subtle changes could make a big difference for the best players in the world. It’s also likely to make a difference in those wraparound attempts, whereas the goaltender used to get his leg across just in time to cover the other post. Some of those will find the back of the net now.
History tells us that small changes can make a big difference at the highest level of sport. And it's not just hockey. Following Bob Gibson's record-setting performance for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968, major-league baseball lowered pitching mounds by five inches and lowered the highest reaches of the strike zone by about an inch. The cumulative earned-run average in 1968 was 2.98. The next season, ERAs shot up to 3.61. Hockey would no doubt celebrate a similar boost but here’s the interesting part. The average goals per game last season were 5.3 goals and that’s why almost every total is 5.
No question these new dimensions are an attempt to increase scoring. That is an absolute. However, the oddsmakers have not made the adjustment and we’ll attempt to take advantage until they do. We’re not suggesting the totals should be 6 but we are suggesting that there should be significantly more juice on playing the number over 5 but that is not the case. With that, we’re playing every total today over 5 with plus money on all of them because that is exactly where the value sits."
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