Early 90s! I grew up with Messier, Book, and Richter. I have to say that was hockey at its absolute finest. Maybe not the same skill level, but so much fun.
Hearing the Booook chants at MSG used to give me the chills when I was 9 years old.
Early 90s! I grew up with Messier, Book, and Richter. I have to say that was hockey at its absolute finest. Maybe not the same skill level, but so much fun.
Hearing the Booook chants at MSG used to give me the chills when I was 9 years old.
Anyone else get nostalgic over this era?
Oh definitely, but as you might have guessed, I was cheering for a different team and a different star during that 1994 cup final.
Hockey then did always seem to be more exciting to me. "Ahead on to Pavel Bure...Bure...scores!"
I was young during the late eighties earley nineties so I have some memories but mostly I blank on alot of the play. The later nineties I remember alot of excitement regarded the low scoring, it is so intense to have two hard hitting teams going into the third period in a 1-1 or 0-0 game, next mistake loses the game.
But as eras go for my lifetime this post-lockout, though fighting with monetary issues, I think the evolution of the game has been for the better, reinventing the offence of the eighties, while still unholding the defensive excitment the game developed in the late nineties.
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The trap and clutch and grab hockey of the ninety's was almost the down fall of the NHL.
You can thank the Devils for that.
Are you kidding? There was just as much clutching and grabbing in the 80's as there was in the 90's, it was the style of play that changed to defensive from offensive thats all not the clutching and grabbing.
Are you kidding? There was just as much clutching and grabbing in the 80's as there was in the 90's, it was the style of play that changed to defensive from offensive thats all not the clutching and grabbing.
More clutching and grabbing in the 80s? This after you've stated the skill level is worse today than back then. I really don't understand these comments. Let alone the fact that you act like flyerfan2 is the one who is out of his mind for making the accurate observation.
Early 90's was a watered down version of the league. What with expansion and the league still not getting the best out of the former Soviet Union and satelite countries. Take a quick look at the players who had carreer years in the early 90's.
I loved 80's hockey but I think right now, and the immediate future is going to be the best hockey we have seen since the original 6.
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The trap and clutch and grab hockey of the ninety's was almost the down fall of the NHL.
You can thank the Devils for that.
I think Florida's run to the finals had a huge part in making the trap such a popular option with coaches.
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You ask Ovechkin if he would trade his Art Ross and Richard Trophies, to trade places with Sidney Crosby last June.
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