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Originally Posted by saillias
No not anymore.
Out this year: Byron, Raymond, Hudler, Granlund, Russell, Wideman (kinda) Jones. There's a lot of softness there.
I think the change in overall style to a more physical, hard-nosed game happened right around the time of the Wideman suspension, when Russell also was hurt and then Hudler traded. This is about the time they added Hathaway, Nakladal and Wotherspoon.
There are physical forwards all throughout the lineup now and the depth d-man are much better crease-clearers than Wideman or Russell were.
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I find it strange and almost insulting to Byron that you include him in that group. Byron was a lot of things, but soft wasn't one of them. He never played soft. He wasn't and isn't afraid to throw checks on much bigger guys or get into puck battles. You don't play 200 NHL games by the age of 26 at his size without having a certain level of grit and toughness. To lump him in with Raymond is bizarre. Raymond is in the AHL right now, Byron isn't. I wonder if he'll ever get the praise he deserves from some part of this board?
Oh and why don't you ask Daniel Sedin if he thinks Byron is soft?