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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
I watched some Gretzky highlights last night. His skating was nice and fluid, his stick handling and puck protection were top tier, his vision was ridiculous, it's clear the way he thought the game was far ahead of everyone else on the ice. But man, I just can't get over how bad a lot of the goaltending looked in the 80's......
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I get into this discussion frequently, old-timers like their old timers but hockey in the 70s and 80s is awful and largely unwatchable to a modern audience.
Goaltending was atrocious, defence was garbage, I can walk on ice faster than most players could pass the puck.
Go watch a 'Classic' hockey game and you might make it barely 10 minutes.
We moan and complain but this modern-era of hockey is the best it's ever been.