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Originally Posted by Matty81
I grew up on 80s BOA too and there were lots of fights, elbows and stick work but I never saw a guy who didn't want to fight get pummelled like that from behind. Its revisionist history to say the game changed and got soft and this stuff was the norm.
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No, but there was that time Messier sucker-punched Macoun between whistles when they were going off the ice and Macoun was literally looking the other way. Broke his jaw and put him out for 15 games. Don’t think Messier even got a penalty.
Different times.
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