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Probert24 · 03-07-2013, 10:26 AM

I fully, 100% agree on that one! Maybe I'm too old school - but the NHL of today - while good - is (at least to me) NO WHERE near as enjoyable a spectacle as the game was in the '70s and '80s (and even into the early '90s) when brawling was still allowed - players policed themselves and each other and scoring was off the scale. Given the nature of today's game (as outlined in the posts earlier in this thread) I seriously doubt we'll ever see the game revert to the style of game we older-timers enjoyed 30 or more years ago - and records posted by guys like Orr, Espo, Hull, Coffey and, oh yeah, those two other guys - Gretzky and Lemieux - lol -- are probably safe at least through my lifetime, if not my daughter's (and she just turned 4).

Sad... very sad. I loved the 'old' game and lament its changes. Truly, as the previous poster said so beautiful - "older was definitely better".

03-07-2013, 10:26 AM	#81
Probert24 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Chicago Posts: 59	I fully, 100% agree on that one! Maybe I'm too old school - but the NHL of today - while good - is (at least to me) NO WHERE near as enjoyable a spectacle as the game was in the '70s and '80s (and even into the early '90s) when brawling was still allowed - players policed themselves and each other and scoring was off the scale. Given the nature of today's game (as outlined in the posts earlier in this thread) I seriously doubt we'll ever see the game revert to the style of game we older-timers enjoyed 30 or more years ago - and records posted by guys like Orr, Espo, Hull, Coffey and, oh yeah, those two other guys - Gretzky and Lemieux - lol -- are probably safe at least through my lifetime, if not my daughter's (and she just turned 4). Sad... very sad. I loved the 'old' game and lament its changes. Truly, as the previous poster said so beautiful - "older was definitely better".