They would have probably loved it, first of all, more money and opportunity. Second of all, the post first expansion era featured just some really bad hockey compared to the Original 6 era as teams and especially the expansion teams struggled to fill their rosters.
However on the other side of it, the post expansion era lead to the rise of goon hockey as hockey for a while became a blood sport as teams filled the bottom of their lineups with absolute no skill knuckle draggers.
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