It's my belief that one of the chief causes of the dead puck era was coaches training young defencemen (from junior on up, and possibly earlier) to do nothing but defend. The generation of D-men who grew up wanting to be Bobby Orr had come and gone, and the young players were being coached by guys who all wanted to be Jacques Lemaire. Offence from the blue line declined drastically in the 90s. I'm very glad it's come back.
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