GM's to talk about the 1-3-1 trap at meetings

[Fitzpatrick'sbeard]

"There has certainly been a lot of debate over the last few days about what
happened in the game," Flyers GM

Paul Holmgren told NHL.com Monday night from the
Hockey Hall of Fame inductions. "Coaches do different things and their ultimate
job and task is to win the game. Personally, I didn't have a problem with what
Tampa did. They sit back and wait and they have great offensive players so if
you turn the puck over they can hurt you. There was a period of time in the
first period where we didn't bite into it and were doing our own thing, but to
me it just didn't sit right."

Holmgren is ready for the discussion, but
he isn't sure if anything can come of it at the general managers' level because,
as he said, "How are you going to mandate how teams forecheck and how teams
attack? How are you going to do that?"

Lightning GM

Steve Yzerman told ESPN.com that he thinks it is
worthy of a discussion and that he's looking forward to having one. Dallas'

Joe
Nieuwendyk





, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Monday, joked
with NHL.com that he anticipates it becoming the Yzerman and Holmgren show at
the meeting Tuesday.

"It'll be interesting," Penguins GM

Ray Shero told NHL.com. "We played against Tampa in
the playoffs last year and lost in seven games, and they played the same system.
I have some thoughts, but that's the great thing about having these meetings --
you hear ideas from other general managers in the League and you kick things
around.

"I talked to our coaching staff and some of our players about
it, what they thought, and really I'm not exactly what can be done about any
defensive or forechecking system. The game is the game. If there are some great
ideas I'm all ears. We'll see what comes out of it."

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[chernobylwraiths]

Darcy will probably be bringing up goaltender hits as well

[OpIv37]

I have a bad feeling that this will result in another rule change that will come back to bite the Sabres.

[hydro]

I have a bad feeling that this will result in another rule change that will come back to bite the Sabres.

Color me surprised...

Is it just a feeling or do you have an actual explanation? Because I would be really interested seeing as we really don't run a 1-3-1. So if it's a rule to hinder it, it should help us. Right?