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Originally Posted by badradio
You guys seem to forget that in 2004 the NHL was different... You could have a roster of sandpaper that wouldn't land you in the box every 5 minutes... The game was different... the 'new nhl' made it a lot harder to do that. Though when it came to the playoffs it seemed to even out a bit more... But I still think it's important to point out.
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Agreed. Our team in 2004 was one of the best hooking/holding/obstruction teams. Obviously you can't duplicate that anymore and thus lower talent teams have a hard time keeping up with higher talent teams.
That said we do lack some things from that team. Excellent team speed and tremendous forechecking and backchecking.