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Originally Posted by saillias

Players are not faster, it's a crock.

Iginla described it recently:

"People like to say the game is way faster now, too. I, personally, think it’s consistently quicker, but I don’t think the top end of the game is faster," he said. "When you look at Paul Kariya and Pavel Bure and Teemu Selanne and Joe Sakic, well, the difference now is that the fourth lines are faster. So they are faster than the old fourth lines.

"I don’t think today’s best guys are any faster than them (Ovechkin, Crosby), it’s just that everybody’s flying now. The pace of the game is just more consistent now. Everyone backchecks. The high end, that doesn’t feel any faster to me. At least not since they took out the red line. It did get quicker then.

"And the lack of hold-ups, since they made that change, the game’s been pretty much the same since then. But we used to hold everyone up. Then it was about slowing everyone down.

"Now it’s all skating."

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