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Originally Posted by pylon
People who never had the chance of watching 70's and 80's hockey live, do not realize how much faster the game is now. Current WHL teams would probably beat an 80's era NHL team. The size and conditioning of the players is on a completely different level now.
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Player might be bigger but I don't what makes anyone think that the conditioning is now miles ahead of what it was in the 70's. Some players were absolutely driven to work out even back then while Gretzky was probably the worst conditioned guy of his time and he still dominated.