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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I'm guessing you could find much worse if you dug up the game-day rosters of the Kansas City Scouts, or the Capitals in their expansion year. Those players would have higher career totals, but only because they had to play the whole season for those incredibly awful teams – there was nobody to take their place.
In 1974-75, there were 18 teams in the NHL, 14 in the WHA, virtually no Europeans in either league, and far fewer Americans than there are now. Imagine what the quality of the NHL would be like even now if it only had Canadian players to draw on. Then factor in the huge difference in training and development, and remember that the Scouts and Capitals got the leavings that none of the other 30 teams wanted. Those teams were baaaaaad.
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Throw in the Colorado Rockies