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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I agree and I don't. Yes, the best part of hockey is the skill and speed. And it's great when you have the end-to-end action we just saw with Team North America vs Sweden.
But when it's not great players playing their hardest, today's NHL can be painful to watch. I miss the passion of the older style of hockey. It used to be that in game 62 of the regular season maybe everyone isn't exactly flying out there, but there was the chance for some cheap shot or fight to light a fire under the teams and instil a bit of emotion in the game. Some hate. Now, if they players aren't feeling it, you may as well be watching tennis for all the intensity evident on the ice.
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That's what I miss about the 80 and 90's game. It's not the goons pounding each others heads in, it's that anything could happen. It was pure emotion. That's completely gone from the game.
Though I fully admit, I'm a huge fan of fighting in hockey and always have been. I actually think the reduction in fighting/emotion in the game is part of the reason I watch a lot more basketball now during the winter. If there isn't going to be contact, I may as well watch something that is interesting. I don't enjoy a defensive 1-0 chess match between two teams that are indifferent towards each other.