"Let's make the game more exciting," they said.
"We need more scoring," they said.
"Let's make the nets bigger," they said.
On Saturday night both the St. John's IceCaps and the Montreal Canadiens previewed the concept of bigger nets, not physically of course, but rather with the anomalous performance of the entire goaltender depth in the organization.
The nets may as well have been large gaping chasms, large enough to hear the cavernous echo of Gary Bettman rubbing his hands together and saying "Good. Good", like some movie villain whose plan was coming to fruition.