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Originally Posted by GioforPM

It didn't happen to Gretzky because he wasn't usually in that position (and I don't think he was ever as small as Petterson). If you think there wasn't dirty play or cheap shots, you are wrong.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodb0LUALjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsc41szSwLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBncDgAAfbk



Oh, and Gretzky did get targeted once in a while - this one is illegal today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oxwUo1T9E

So you linked to Luke Richardson (an enforcer) getting slashed in the head by Dino Ciccarelli - where is the star player?

Roenick taking a legal hit that was high and within the rules at the time oh and it's in the 90's

Bossy taking a borderline dirty hit that was likely acceptable back then but now would be suspendable.

Gretzky taking a clean and legal at the time and probably now hockey hit.

How do they have any relevance to what I said? Do you have a link to Tim Hunter body slamming Gretzky to the ice and causing a concussion? Or Jim Peplinski with a flying elbow on Gretzky?

Hockey is a physical sport, I never said it wasn't. I never said it wasn't dirty in the 80's. Read what I wrote.