Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock believes there's a simple solution to reversing the NHL's downward goal-scoring trend: Make the nets bigger.

"It's impossible to score," Babcock, who is currently in charge of a team scoring 2.18 goals per game, told reporters Wednesday.

"All you gotta do is a math equation. You go to 1980 when the puck went in the net. You got the average size of the goalies in the NHL and the average size of the net. You keep growing the net bigger, that would make the game the same. We change the game every year because we don't want to change the game.

"The net is too small for the size of the goalies. Period."

It might sound like sour grapes, considering the Maple Leafs' scoring woes, but it's something Babcock trumpeted during a highly successful tenure with the Detroit Red Wings, as well.

And they've been right about things before.