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Originally Posted by Locke
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.
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I used to say that too about watching the classic games until I watched one between the Habs and Nordiques from the 70s or early 80s.
Full team brawl in the warmup. Before the refs were on the ice. Then another full team brawl at the end of the first period.
Old time hockey can be fun too!