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Originally Posted by Trailer Fire
I remember my old man calling him a dirty player that cheap shots venerable opponents. By any standard he is a cheap shot artist.
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Originally Posted by MattyC
Yeah I would agree. Every highlight reel of Stevens is chock full of elbows to faces. And yes, elbowing was a penalty then too. Whether they called the penalty or not is irrelevant.
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What Stevens did tucking in his elbow and hitting wasn't considered elbowing at the time. An elbow meant it had to be outward and used solely as the point of contact.
Trailer Fire, your old man might have called him a cheap shot artist but that's mostly because he targeted players that were vulnerable, dirty but wasn't cheap at the time.