https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTZOUqBQfvI&pp=ygUVbWFyY2hhbmQgZ2V0dGluZyBodXJ0

Marchand has been getting killed his whole career. That video has him getting beat up, hit hard clean, hit dirty, speared in the nuts, punched in the head, cross checked, the whole book.

A big hit is pretty forgettable though. What isn’t forgettable is getting beat on the scoreboard which him and the Bruins have done.
- Santo_44

Nice. Loved every second of that.

Page and Plant are still on my bucket list, along with Fleetwood/Stevie. I've actually had a chance to see Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and passed on it at the time. I regret the poop out of that now.

I'd pay good money to see Plant and Krauss. They have lightning in a bottle.
- GalacticStone

I’ve seen many groups and singers over 40+ years. Robert Plant was amazing and was the top one or two of all of them. I was expecting a good show but he absolutely blew me away. Incredible voice in person.

So keep in mind I'm somewhat tone deaf, so music isn't really that important to me.

But for me, I'd much rather go to a small bar and hear a band play than go see someone play in front of 20,000 fans or more.

My wife dragged me to Springsteen at the ACC about 10 years ago.

It wasn't nearly as entertaining a night as if we had gone to the Rex instead.
- Atomic Wedgie

Oh totally.
But well known bands rarely play in bars too often. I usually only go to concerts at the amphitheater or ones in OhL arenas.
Once in a blue moon ill do the Scotiabank arena.

Whoa, that snail is fast!!!

OV and guys like Iginla also had some years in that time goalies didn't have the ratio to your body goalie pad restrictions.



https://nationalpost.com/...problem-of-equipment-size
- AdamFrench

The one always bugged me because the comparisons of era don't just boil down to the goalie equipment sizes. Players had inferior skates, equipment, wooden sticks with significantly less jump off of one-timers and a red line at centre to contend with. It was a different game in many ways. The struggles with scoring in the 90s were often attributed to clutch and grab but were just as attributable to trapping the neutral zone which was much easier with the red line in place.

Wayne Gretzky wasn't scoring because there was so much net to shoot at. Just like all the greats, he was shooting where the goalie wasn't going to be. Just like Ovi or Matthews do today.

The one always bugged me because the comparisons of era don't just boil down to the goalie equipment sizes. Players had inferior skates, equipment, wooden sticks with significantly less jump off of one-timers and a red line at centre to contend with. It was a different game in many ways. The struggles with scoring in the 90s were often attributed to clutch and grab but were just as attributable to trapping the neutral zone which was much easier with the red line in place.

Wayne Gretzky wasn't scoring because there was so much net to shoot at. Just like all the greats, he was shooting where the goalie wasn't going to be. Just like Ovi or Matthews do today.
- Monkeypunk

Bingo.
Those wooden sticks just didnt have the same flex as the space age sticks nowadays

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- Atomic Wedgie

Some cap shenanigans! Fine em Paros!

Bingo.
Those wooden sticks just didnt have the same flex as the space age sticks nowadays
- Fakepartofme

i also get the impression that Gretzky never set foot in a gym

Bingo.
Those wooden sticks just didnt have the same flex as the space age sticks nowadays
- Fakepartofme

Tell that to Al McInnis

Tell that to Al McInnis
- AdamFrench

he would have killed someone with todays sticks

he would have killed someone with todays sticks
- drexel

Exactly.

he would have killed someone with todays sticks
- drexel

Or he wouldn’t have figured out how to shoot that hard because he wouldn’t have needed to.

Or he wouldn’t have figured out how to shoot that hard because he wouldn’t have needed to.
- Dozzer

Big Z sure as poop wouldn't have been pouring concrete into a flower pot and sticking his stick in it to learn how to shoot hard and build muscle in the mean streets of Trencin.

Page and Plant are still on my bucket list, along with Fleetwood/Stevie. I've actually had a chance to see Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty and passed on it at the time. I regret the poop out of that now.

I'd pay good money to see Plant and Krauss. They have lightning in a bottle.
- GalacticStone

Saw Zeppelin in ‘71 in Ottawa. I wasn’t a huge fan and actually went to see the opening act, Savoy Brown. Page did a great acoustic set though.

My wife was a huge Tom Petty fan and we were lucky to see him on his last tour. He was great.

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Tell that to Al McInnis
- AdamFrench

His slapshot with todays sticks would be do much harder.

The one always bugged me because the comparisons of era don't just boil down to the goalie equipment sizes. Players had inferior skates, equipment, wooden sticks with significantly less jump off of one-timers and a red line at centre to contend with. It was a different game in many ways. The struggles with scoring in the 90s were often attributed to clutch and grab but were just as attributable to trapping the neutral zone which was much easier with the red line in place.

Wayne Gretzky wasn't scoring because there was so much net to shoot at. Just like all the greats, he was shooting where the goalie wasn't going to be. Just like Ovi or Matthews do today.
- Monkeypunk

IDK man...there was a hell of a lot of empty net to shoot at in the years of stand up goaltending, the whole bottom/sides/top blocker were givens back in my day. High glove was the no-no unless you had a fast shot and wanted to show off. But if you wanted to just score pick low inside either post and it was almost guaranteed.

I think a Matthews or McDavid would have blown the doors off of a Gretzky back in the day just on their shot accuracy ability....could they sustain the clutch/grab and getting the poop beat out of them is the only question. Gretzky was a master at evasion.