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Originally Posted by mikephoen
I'm assuming none of the people raging about the Tkachuk elbow ever watched Messier or Howe play. Howe elbowed someone worse than that on an average shift. Messier usually did it to guys who didn't even have the puck and weren't looking. It was a 2 minute minor penalty, nothing more.
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Gordie Howe is dead and would have been close to 90 today. Does it really matter how he played 40-50 years ago?