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Originally Posted by fotze
Just looking at the players that might be comparable. Being small and not getting hit may actually cause him to have a longer career not shorter. For every Paul Kariya and Marc Savard there are at least another Chris Pronger and Keith Primeau and Eric Lindros.
Buttersoft Nylander - 920 NHL games and is still playing pro 5 years after leaving the NHL.
Marcel Dionne - 5'8" 1348 games
Henri Richard - 5'7" 1256 games
Ted Lindsay - 5'8" 1068 games
Yvan Cournoyer - 5'7" 968 games
Dave Keon - 5'9" 163 lbs. 1296 games (301 in WHA)
PAt Verbeek - 5'9" 1424 games
Denis Maruk - 5'8" 888 games
Brian Gionta - 5'7" 776 games
Steve Sullivan - 5'9" 1011 games
Maybe my conventional thinking is wrong.
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Fascinating list, thanks.
I had no idea that Keon was that small.
I remember well the Road Runner and the Pocket Rocket!
These guys played when the game was vicious...more vicious than today, arguably, and equipment was all thin strips of leather and hard plastic. Yet they thrived.
Gaudreau is making a believer out of jaded old me.