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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Is it? We're talking about 1996, that was less than 20 years ago.
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As far as hockey is concerned, that is practically a generation. If you go back to Gretzky in his prime, that was a different era.
Many players from 1996 now have kids that are close to the same age they were at that point, and they are teaching those kids based on their experience. This happens every generation and it's why the benchmarks are constantly changing.
So yeah, I would count 1996 as a different era. It might not be like comparing the 1970s and the 1990s, but there is still a noticable change IMO.