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Originally Posted by 868904
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.
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I read what you wrote. You didn't limit it to "star players" (but there were few stars bigger than Bossy and there's no question that was dirty even then). You said that this stuff didn't occur because of fear of reprisal/respect etc.
No doubt there were reprisals (though I didn't see any on Bossy). But the point is that they didn't stop dirty play - it was more prevalent if anything. Was Hunter worried about reprisals when he crosschecked Turgeon from behind well after the play had ended and Turgeon was celebrating a goal?