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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
"Leaving the game alone" over the last few decades would have resulted in:
- the spread of xenophobia and homophobia
- allowing people's brains to rot without helmets and CTE preventative measures
- preventing Russians or any other Europeans from coming to the NHL
- a stagnation in women's hockey...
etc.
Heck, if we left the game alone, there would still be six teams and none west of Chicago, including Calgary.
Times change. Keep up.
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Changes are sometimes good but this is incorrect information. The NHL teams were trying to sign Russian players from day one. It’s the Soviet Union and communist Czechoslovakia that kept their players caged in and prevented them from playing in the west for money.
Furthermore although it has improved, they still allow brains to rot and woman’s hockey developed organically without NHL involvement.