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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The glass also used to be a lot shorter then it is pre net. I remember Kevin Lavalle (Sp>) who played for the Flames had a extremely hard and uncontrollable slap shot. It was literally like a machine gun, he would put 4 or 5 hundred mile an hour slap shots into the crowd on a straight line a game.
There was one game that I remember where he hit a couple of fans and for the next few shifts came out with a towel around his neck to throw to a fan in case he hit them.
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No word of exaggeration to say LaVallee had the hardest shot of any hockey player ever, but also as accurate to say he didn't have a freakin clue where it was going at times.
I remember a couple old barns where there was no glass at all...instead there would be chain link fencing about 4 feet up from really short boards similar to this...
Also...playing with no helmets nevermind visors.